The situation is changing in nursing homes where the elderly, the main victims of the coronavirus, benefit from an accelerated vaccination.
However, they regret to see the restrictive measures maintained.
Europe 1 went to the Maison Mon Repos in Sartrouville, in Yvelines.
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues at a steady pace and the elderly are the main beneficiaries.
In nursing homes in particular, 75% of residents have received at least a first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
This massive vaccination was supposed to make it possible to return to a more normal life in these establishments.
However, the health protocol is still as strict.
"It's something unbearable. It's as if we were in prison," laments Madeleine, 94, at the microphone of Europe 1.
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In this retirement home in Yvelines, just over 60% of them received the two injections of the Pfizer vaccine.
But visits remain limited.
"We took this risk of getting vaccinated, it was to have a little advantage in our life… There isn't any."
Knowing her advanced age, she explains that she wants to make the most of her loved ones.
"If I were young I would say to myself, it's a bad time to go but we will recover. I don't have time to wait."
"Find some semblance of life"
The director of this nursing home, Vanessa Rhino, also pleads for a relaxation of the health protocol, arguing that the residents were vaccinated to "find a semblance of life": "I am entirely in this perspective, give a little more 'access to families, giving residents a little more freedom. The rules should really be relaxed. "
The difficulty remains of having to constantly deal with the protection of seniors who are not yet immunized.
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On the government side, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, evokes a "legitimate" request but invokes the need for "reliable data".
"We will soon be able to say whether vaccination in nursing homes prevents severe forms and hospitalization," he said Thursday evening at a press conference, adding: "I hope, like the 700,000 residents in Ehpad, that we will be able to further lift the health constraints. "