The week will be decisive. The executive decided to speed up the schedule for the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccine pass, which will be discussed from this Monday, January 3, 2022 in the National Assembly then on January 5 in the Senate with an implementation expected on January 15. Faced with the tidal wave of contamination, the government announced last Monday new health restriction measures such as the compulsory use of teleworking in the companies concerned or the return of gauges for public events. The new vaccination pass, if passed, will be compulsory for access to leisure activities; restaurants and drinking establishments, fairs, seminars and trade shows or even interregional transport “, especially rail. It will therefore be necessary to prove a complete vaccination cycle.”A (negative) test will no longer suffice“. In Nîmes, more and more people reluctant to the vaccine end up accepting their first dose.”We see them more and more, confirms Guillaume Pierret, from the Pharmacie des arènes. We didn’t see them before. but because of the restrictions, yes, they come and get vaccinated. Every day, there are new ones who arrive, and who come for a first vaccination.”
“It had already started when it was the end of tests for unvaccinated people, explains Guillaume Pierret. And it happened _accelerated early December_, when we started to say that the sanitary passes were going to be blocked according to age. And above all the reduction of the period of validity of the antigen test from 72 hours to 24 hours“.
He also recognizes: “They are just annoyed, because they have the feeling that they are being forced. “This is the case of this Nîmes, who was contaminated by covid-19, and currently benefits from a health pass. only begins to consider, reluctantly, to be vaccinated. “I’m going to think about it, because I want to keep my freedom to be able to come and go where I want, without constraint. So unfortunately, they will gradually succeed in getting us stung (…) Vaccinated, you can transmit or catch it. So, basically if I understand, it’s to relieve the congestion in hospitals, our friends the caregivers. We will think of them. But I’m going to go reluctantly. ”
“Unfortunately they will gradually succeed in making us sting”, a still reluctant Nîmes
the variant Omicron is now the majority among Covid-19 infections in France, where the virus has experienced a “significant progress“in recent days, found Public Health France.”62.4% of the tests screened showed a profile compatible with the Omicron variant“at the start of the last week of the year, against 15% the previous one, the public agency found in its last weekly survey, published Thursday evening.
The incidence rate and hospitalizations linked to the coronavirus prompted the Prefecture of Gard to announce that the mask becomes mandatory again in the city centers of Nîmes, Alès, Bagnols-sur-Cèze and Beaucaire since Friday December 31st.