Paid tests, health pass in shopping centers and third dose … We summarize the announcements of the defense council.
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The government decided on Wednesday to tighten the sanitary screw to fight the rise in Covid cases. The health pass will be made compulsory in large shopping centers in the departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 per 100,000. About thirty of them, located mainly in the southern half of the country, are already affected by this new rule.
In these departments, the prefects will also have to restore the wearing of the obligatory mask indoors in places open to the public.
End of free “mid-October” tests
Until now free, screening tests without medical prescription will become chargeable “from mid-October“. And border controls will be stepped up:”100% of travelers coming from countries at risk will be checked by antigen test“, said Gabriel Attal.
Windows open for a third dose
The “recall campaign“to inject a third dose of anti-Covid vaccine into the”populations at risk“will begin in mid-September,” government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced.
“The appointments will open at the end of August, beginning of September, for a recall campaign that will begin in mid-September“, said Attal.
“The list of populations concerned will be drawn up by the High Authority for Health“, he added. A little earlier, by opening the health defense council, President Emmanuel Macron had mentioned”Vaccination reminders for people over 80 and particularly vulnerable from the start of the school year“.
Strict confinement in Guadeloupe
These decisions were taken Wednesday during a Defense Council by videoconference, convened to try to “brake with all four irons“the Covid-19 epidemic, which is currently causing an increase in the number of patients in hospitals and in intensive care units.
As in Martinique, faced with the explosion of cases, Guadeloupe will apply strict confinement from this Wednesday evening.
