“The Omicron variant is reshuffling the cards,” confessed on franceinfo this Tuesday morning the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal. As it develops faster than all the other variants known until then, on average 70% faster, according to him, the government does not want to wait any longer and is accelerating on the vaccine pass project. The schedule of the bill on the vaccine pass is brought forward by one week.
The government will indeed present it to the exceptional Council of Ministers next week, on December 27. “We would have a law commission on December 29, with a hearing of Olivier Véran, and an examination in the hemicycle from January 3,” confirmed to Release the deputy LREM Jean-Pierre Pont. The government wants to accelerate once again on vaccination, and tighten the noose on the unvaccinated. The government, which is consulting parliamentary groups on Tuesday, aims for a “final adoption” by Parliament “from the first half of January,” the government spokesperson confirmed at midday.
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Speed up on vaccination
In this sense, Gabriel Attal recalled that the booster dose was effective against the Omicron variant: “When we recalled, we are very strongly protected against Omicron”, he hammered. However, he admitted that the country was entering “a period of strong turbulence” and that he did not want to “exclude” anything, starting with a re-containment: “I never exclude anything on principle”, he conceded . As for the corporate health pass, the idea is still on the table and discussions will be held during the day.
This morning, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, welcomed the booster doses administered a few days in advance. “Today we will reach 20 million recalls […] We continue, we amplify, we will achieve it together “, he unveiled. For his part, Gabriel Attal repeated that the government wanted to put in place” the vaccine pass without delay. “He also added that in Ile-de-France -from France, “one in three contamination seems to be linked to the Omicron variant.” Adding: “Omicron is arriving in our country and if it represented 10% of the contaminations this weekend, we are probably beyond today and far beyond in certain regions, notably in Ile-de-France, in particular in Paris. ”The incidence rate in the country is today 537 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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