The French government wants to keep “the possibility of using” the green pass until the summer of 2022. The spokesman of the executive, Gabriel Attal, said today, confirming that a bill to this effect will be presented on 13 October to the Cabinet.
“We have reason to be optimistic,” said Attal, according to whom France is moving towards the end of the fourth wave of the covid-19 pandemic, with “daily cases falling by 23% in one week”. But “the last 18 months have shown us that we need to be cautious. We still need tools for many months to be able to use, if necessary, means to protect the French,” he explained. The current green pass provision expires on November 15 and will have to be renewed by parliament.
And starting from tomorrow the green pass will also be required for teenagers from 12 years old. It will serve, as is already the case with all other French people, to access long-distance transport, bars, restaurants, entertainment venues, cinemas, museums, gyms and swimming pools. Sports in schools are exempt.
The vaccination against covid-19 was opened for adolescents only in mid-June and for this reason the parliament has decided to postpone the request to show the green pass for this age group until tomorrow.
According to reports from Le Figaro, citing data from the health authorities, as of 27 September more than seven out of ten adolescents were vaccinated: 72.1% received at least the first dose and 64% completed the vaccination.
In the last 24 hours, over 6,700 covid-19 infections and 58 deaths have been recorded in France.