France, one million vaccines booked after Macron’s speech – World

Boom of vaccination requests in France after the speech by President Emmanuel Macron who last night on live TV on unified networks announced the extension of the green pass to access restaurants, cafes and transport. This morning, the head of online booking site Doctolib, Stanislas Niox-Chateau, said “926,000 French people made an appointment for the vaccine” last night. “We’ve had 20,000 appointments per minute, an all-time record, since the start of the (vaccination) campaign,” he said.

Health personnel who have not been fully vaccinated by 15 September will no longer be able to work and will no longer be paid: this is what the French Minister of Health reported today, Olivier Véran, after the announcement by President Emmanuel Macron to avert a fourth wave linked to the Delta variant of the coronavirus. “As of September 15, if you are a medical or paramedical and are not vaccinated, you will no longer be able to work and you will no longer be paid,” Véran told LCI. As for the extension of the health pass requirement in bars, restaurants, trains, airplanes, “it is not blackmail” but a necessary measure to avoid “closing the country”, he told BFM-TV. The health pass, which serves to prove the complete vaccination against Covid-19, the recent recovery or the realization of a negative test, will become mandatory at the end of July to enter the cultural places of over 50 people, as well as in numerous cinemas of the France. At the beginning of August, the measure will be extended to many other fields of activity, such as bars, restaurants, shopping centers, long journeys by train, bus, plane. Faced with the disturbing advance of the Delta variant, Macron ran for cover by announcing a great offensive to induce his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

“France on the obligation to vaccinate health personnel has followed our approach. The decree was approved in Italy as early as April 1. We were the first European country to introduce this obligation. Others are following us”. This was stated by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, on the sidelines of the W20 Women summit in Piazza di Pietra in Rome.

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