COVID VACCINE PASSPORT. To push the 6 million French people not vaccinated against the coronavirus to vaccination, the vaccination pass could be in force “from the first half of January” 2022 announces Gabriel Attal on December 21. It will replace the health pass. Definition, principle, date, at work … Know everything.
[Mise à jour le 22 décembre 2021 à 11h11] It was the big announcement of December 17, 2021 by Jean Castex: a bill will be tabled by the government to transform the current health pass into a vaccination pass : so only vaccination will be valid in the country. The option of getting tested will no longer be possible to go to restaurants, to the cinema, to bars … And this new pass could be in force “from the first half of January” said the government spokesperson Gabriel Attal Tuesday, December 21. The government therefore advance his calendar and will make a Extraordinary Council of Ministers Monday, December 27 against January 5, 2022 initially planned. This decision to introduce a vaccination pass is based on the observation that 6 million French people are still not vaccinated against the coronavirus, recalled Jean Castex during his press conference, while the diffusion of the Omicron variant is “dazzling”. The introduction in Europe of a vaccine passport had been mentioned in January 2021. It was a document, in the form of a QR code or in paper version, certifying that a person had received a vaccination. complete against Covid-19. This sesame would allow him to travel abroad without testing and to access certain public places or events. Subject to controversy, deemed too restrictive, discriminating and unequal, the vaccination passport had finally been replaced by the European health pass. But the Scientific Council, in a notice from July 2021 recommended “the establishment of a vaccination passport, for individual purposes in order to be able to access certain “spaces of freedom” (restaurants, cultural activities, sports …). Finally the idea will have gained ground. To understand.
Definition: what is a vaccination passport?
The vaccination passport (or vaccination certificate) is an official document which certifies that the person has received all the injections of the vaccine against Covid-19 (two doses then booster). This is a “pass” which could allow its holder to travel to another country (if the host country recognizes its validity), but also to certain public places (restaurants, museums, sporting events, cultural places, etc.). On the other hand, the vaccination passport does not mention negative tests or certificates of recovery from Covid. It is therefore not the same as a health pass.
Does it already exist? There is a international vaccination record, sometimes required to enter certain countries, issued in International Vaccination Centers to people who come to be vaccinated against yellow fever.
What are the differences with the health pass?
The vaccination passport should not be confused with the (European) health pass implemented in France since June 9 and implemented at European level on July 1.
| Information contained | Vaccination passport | Health pass |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate of vaccination | YES | YES |
| PCR or antigenic tests negative | NO | YES |
| Proof of recovery from Covid | NO | YES |
Date: when in France?
The Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Friday, December 17 that the government will table a bill in Parliament to transform the current health pass into a vaccination pass in order to push the 6 million French people not yet vaccinated against Covid to do so. If the vaccination pass is introduced in France, only vaccination will be valid to access places already subject to the health pass: restaurant, cinema, museum … The tests will no longer be recognized. “We had planned to adopt it in the Council of Ministers on January 5 (2022, editor’s note), we decided to bring this calendar forward, an extraordinary Council of Ministers will be held on December 27” Gabriel Attal announced on December 21. The bill will be examined by Parliament between Christmas and New Year’s Day, “We are aiming for a definitive adoption of the vaccination pass from the first half of January”. The introduction of a vaccine passport had been mentioned in Europe in early 2021 but this measure was not unanimous. The idea was ultimately rejected due to a large inequality in the deployment of vaccination in Europe. For these detractors, it established a discrimination between vaccinated people and unvaccinated people, which was not accepted by case law. For Dominique Le Guludec, president of the High Authority for Health (HAS). the vaccination passport did not have “no Sens” Insofar as “it is not known if this vaccine blocks the transmission of the virus “, she insisted on January 12, 2021 on FranceInfo. “We are very reluctant […] It is an irrelevant debate and it would be shocking if there were more important rights for some than for others. It is not our conception of protection and access to vaccines “, for his part, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, reported on January 17, 2021, still on FranceInfo.
Unlike the vaccination passport, the health pass is not only linked to vaccination.
The European Commission had decided and opted for a common certification to facilitate travel for travelers within the European Union: the famous European health pass. However, the Covid Scientific Council recommended in an opinion of July 8, the implementation of this vaccination pass without waiting to be able to access certain “areas of freedom” (restaurants, cultural activities, sports, etc.).
Are companies going to ask for a vaccination pass?
Olivier Véran mentioned the idea of a health pass at work in an interview with France Inter, Saturday December 18, 2021. He considered it useful to “ask yourself the question of a health pass to go to work“. But this possibility will ultimately not figure in the bill presented to the Council of Ministers on December 27.
Sources: Vie-publique.fr/ Covid-19: a European health certificate, June 16, 2021 / WHO