Boom of vaccination requests in France after the speech by President Emmanuel Macron who announced the extension of the green pass to access restaurants, cafes and transport via live TV on unified networks. Earlier in the morning, the head of online booking site Doctolib, Stanislas Niox-Chateau, said “926,000 French people made an appointment for the vaccine” on Monday evening. “We’ve had 20,000 appointments per minute, an all-time record, since the start of the (vaccination) campaign,” he said.
In France today the record figure of 792,339 vaccinations against Covid was reached, premier Jean Castex announced in the evening.
Health workers who have not fully vaccinated by September 15 will no longer be able to work and will no longer be paid, the French Health Minister said., Olivier Véran, after the announcement by President 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 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 1 April. We were the first European country to introduce this obligation. Others are following us “, said the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza.
in the meantime in the Netherlands, Coronavirus infections have grown by 500% in the last week bringing the positivity rate to 13.4%. This was announced, according to local media reports, by the National Institute for Public Health (Rivm). It is the largest increase recorded since mass tests were started in June 2020 to track the positivity of the population.
Malta has given up on its plan to introduce a ban on unvaccinated travelers hours before it goes into effect, offering the option of quarantine for those who have not yet been immunized. “People arriving in Malta from one of the listed countries without being in possession of a vaccination certificate must undergo a period of quarantine,” the government said in a statement.