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“Once the pandemic has become an endemism, we can say goodbye to the Covid Safe Ticket. The CST is always intended as a temporary measure.” Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon answered this in the Flemish Parliament on Wednesday to a question from Vlaams Belang party leader Chris Janssens.
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Source: BELGIAN
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The current regulation on the application of the CST in Flanders will expire at the end of January. The Flemish Parliament may consider extending the instrument next week. The Brussels and Walloon parliaments have already given the green light for an extension of the use of the CST.
If it depends on the opposition party Vlaams Belang, the CST will disappear in the wastepaper basket. The party has been opposing the instrument for some time. According to Vlaams Belang party leader Chris Janssens, several experts have doubts about the usefulness of the CST and it is best to be removed for being “counterproductive”.
Prime Minister Jan Jambon admits that expectations around the vaccines and the CST were initially “a little too optimistic”, but he believes the CST is an important and useful tool to encourage people to get vaccinated. The question now is how long the CST will continue to be “useful and proportionate”. Jambon is of the opinion that the CST could disappear as soon as we move from a pandemic to an endemism. “The CST is always intended as a temporary measure,” said Jambon.
Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau wanted to know from Jambon what he thinks could replace the CST once we find ourselves in such an endemism. “How do we treat the flu today? That’s how I think we can treat corona,” Jambon replied.
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