VACCINE PASS. The end date of the vaccination pass was announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex for Monday March 14, 2022, as was the end of wearing a mask indoors with a few exceptions in transport or in the hospital.
[Mis à jour le 3 mars 2022 à 19h00] Prime Minister Jean Castex, guest of the 1 p.m. television news on TF1 this Thursday, announced that “from Monday March 14”, the application of the vaccine pass will be suspended “wherever it applies” in France. On the same date, wearing a mask will no longer be compulsory indoors. “It will remain compulsory in public passenger transport given the overcrowding” specified the Prime Minister, however, which concerns all buses, trains, planes, boats on French territory. The Ministry of Health also clarified, following Jean Castex’s announcements, that wearing a mask also remained the rule in all medico-social establishments. Finally, “the health pass will remain the rule in health establishments” after March 14, as will the vaccination obligation for caregivers, added Jean Castex. If this has not yet been clarified by the government, minors aged 12 to 15 should also not need to have a health pass in places where the vaccination pass applies from the March 14.
The government has therefore accelerated the schedule of health relief, in the face of the epidemic decline of Covid-19 in France since January, according to government comments. Indeed, on February 22, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced before the Senate three criteria for considering the end of the vaccine pass: a “threshold of 1,500 patients in intensive care not to be exceeded”, a “sustainably lower R factor at 1” and an “incidence rate between 300/500 at its strongest”. If the R factor of reproduction of the virus is today “significantly less than 1”, according to recent comments by government spokesman Gabriel Attal, there are still more than 2,300 patients in intensive care in the hospitals and the incidence rate is 584 according to the latest official figures recorded in the last 24 hours on covid-tracker. Only one criterion out of the three is therefore partially met to date, although the trend of the Covid-19 epidemic is downward. “It’s not the right time”, protested general practitioner Michaël Rochoy, co-founder of the “Stop-Postillons” collective, on France Info: “the vaccination pass is not a prevention to limit infection, it is a prevention to limit the serious forms”, he added.
What is the end date of the vaccination pass?
The vaccine pass will be lifted “wherever it applies” on French territory “from Monday March 14” 2022, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on March 3 on the 1 p.m. newscast on TF1. “The situation which is improving thanks to our collective efforts, thanks to the measures that we have taken (..), the conditions are met for a new phase of easing of the measures”, he had justified himself on the set of TF1. The vaccine pass will have finally lasted less than two months, since it entered into force on January 24, 2022.
What is the end date for wearing the mask indoors?
The end of wearing a mask was announced for Monday March 14, 2022 by Prime Minister Jean Castex on the 1 p.m. newscast on TF1, on the same date as the end of the vaccination pass. It will therefore no longer be necessary to wear a mask in companies, in stores, schools, colleges, high schools, universities, nightclubs or in public administrations. But beware, wearing a mask will remain compulsory, on March 14, in all public transport “given the crowding” as well as in all medico-social establishments (hospitals, nursing homes and retirement homes).
Where will the vaccination pass be lifted on March 14, 2022?
From Monday March 14, 2022, the vaccination pass will no longer be compulsory “wherever it applies” on French territory, announced Prime Minister Jean Castex during his intervention on the 1 p.m. newscast on TF1 on March 3. . It will therefore no longer be required to present the QR-Code of your vaccination pass at the entrance to these establishments open to the public:
- Restaurants, bars and cafes
- Transport long distance (TGV, Intercités, night trains, domestic flights and inter-regional coaches)
- Campsites, hotels and holiday centers
- Sports establishments (gym, swimming pool, gymnasium, ice rink, horse riding facilities etc)
- Lifts
- Museums and monuments
- Amusement parks
- Concerts and festivals
- Movie theater
- Theaters and other performance halls
- Trade shows, fairs and seminars
- Casinos and other gaming halls
- boat cruises
- discos
- Shopping centers and department stores
Where is the health pass still compulsory?
Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced that the health pass remains compulsory, as of Monday March 14, only in health establishments. This means that you will always need to have a complete vaccination schedule, a Covid-19 recovery certificate, or have carried out a PCR or antigen test within 24 hours, to access hospitals, retirement homes or nursing homes. Minors aged 12 to 15 should be exempt from the health pass in all other places where it applies, as adults will be from the vaccination pass, from March 14, 2022. An announcement has yet to be made to this effect. .
In which places subject to the vaccination pass is the mask no longer compulsory?
Since February 28, the obligation to wear a mask in certain places conditioned by the vaccination pass has been lifted indoors. The mask is thus no longer compulsory in interior spaces subject to the vaccination pass, with the exception of transport (TGV, Intercités, night trains, long-distance coaches and domestic flights). With regard to restaurants, bars and cafés, cinemas, museums and monuments, performance and concert halls, party and game rooms, libraries, nightclubs, trade fairs and fairs, campsites, hotels and holiday centers, sports establishments, or even amusement parks.