COVID-19: Facing Omicron Variant, a decisive week for government

The bill to transform the vaccinal passes is reviewed in the Council of Ministers on Monday, after a health defense council. The executive also plans to lighten the isolation constraints of contacts.

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The party is finished. She was brief. If not non-existent for part of the French. And no doubt concerned for the head of state. Forty-eight hours just after a Christmas disturbed by the sudden arrival of the last VVID-19 variant, Omicron, Emmanuel Macron is once again to submit to an agenda dictated by the pandemic. From the fort of brick (Var), his place of resort, he owes, from Monday 27 December afternoon, hold a Council of Ministers in Visioconferencing, in the wake of a health advice.

Far from preparing, as expected, the French Presidency of the European Union and its next candidacy for the presidential election of 10 and 24 April 2022, the President of the Republic had to decide. Faced with the “bottom blade” Omicron, who has superimposed on the wave of the delta variant, should we erect walls? Should we restore gauges in shops and places of conviviality? Close bars and restaurants? Restore a curfew? If so, when and for how long?

To cope with the fifth wave of the epidemic and the Omicron Variant, the Executive insists on the most consensual solution, found to be the least painful, that of forced immunization. At the Council of Ministers, should thus be examined the bill to transform the “sanitary pass” into “vaccinal pass”: to go to cafes, bars, restaurants or theaters, a negative test at Vis- 19 no longer enough.

The law, which could come into force in the week of January 10, 2022 after examination in Parliament, would be accompanied by additional protective measures inspired by what is done in Germany. A reinforced pass requiring an up-to-date vaccinal scheme coupled to a negative test may be required in places to be defined. For the moment, the government does not consider it in bars and restaurants, but for places brewing an important population.

Unless you include, by amendment, the passage in companies against the willingness of the unions, the text has little chance of providing a shield lifting, left or right. “This is the easiest way to surf the opinion movements. In the Senate we have always held a line of responsibility to protect the French, but also of requirement to strengthen the control of Parliament. On This last point, we can not say that the government has always heard us! “Emphasizes Senator of Vendée Bruno Retail (Republicans, LR). Finally, to avoid the paralysis of dreaded economy, isolation constraints – seven to seventeen days – applied to contact cases could be relaxed.

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