Foreign athletes will be able to participate in a competition in France regardless of the type of vaccine with which they have been vaccinated and will have to respect the protocols of sanitary bubbles. Studied for several days by the government as revealed by Le Parisien, the adjustment to the vaccination pass, which entered into force in France on January 24, has been validated.
Foreign athletes will be authorized to enter an Establishment open to the public (ERP) and therefore to compete “if they present a complete vaccination schedule in their country, and subject to compliance with a strict health bubble protocol”, including ” a test less than 24 hours from entering competition, said the Ministry of Sports.
The Grand Slam of Paris will benefit from it
This means that all types of vaccines are accepted, such as the Russian Sputnik vaccine or the Chinese Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines. Similarly, athletes who have not had access to a booster dose in their country will also have to respect the protocol and be tested the day before the competition.
These rules will apply for the Judo Grand Slam in Paris (February 5 to 6), which without this arrangement would have been deprived of a third of its field, as well as for the Six Nations Tournament. Football is also concerned in the coming weeks, as for the OM-Qabarag (Azerbaijan) match in the Europa League Conference.
The Sputnik V vaccine is used by several dozen countries and its reliability has been validated by the medical journal The Lancet but, for the time being, it has not been approved by the WHO. From February 15, a recovery certificate of less than four months will be required, and no longer six months, to serve as a vaccination pass, as for nationals.