The clarification came from Christian Estrosi himself.

While on Friday evening parents had received emails from the city of Nice, telling them that in the absence of a test or vaccination certificate, their children would not be admitted to leisure centers, the mayor of Nice himself denied information: "this is a circular poorly drafted by the administration," he told AFP on Saturday.

There is therefore no question of imposing the health pass in the leisure centers of Nice.

Instead, the town will offer saliva tests to detect Covid-19 from Wednesday to children aged 3 to 17 who are accommodated there.

Screening "offered and recommended very strongly"

"We are going to propose and very strongly recommend saliva tests which can be carried out at the entrance of establishments, but a child who has not taken the test will be accepted because the law does not allow me to refuse it", specified the first magistrate of Nice.

Apart from this saliva test, practicable at the entrance of establishments or in a dedicated center, and which will only be requested once a week, parents can also present a certificate of vaccination for their child or of recovery if it has been infected with the coronavirus.

The staff of these municipal establishments will, on the other hand, have to present a health pass to be employed there.

"Avoid closures which could be dramatic"

These measures, according to Christian Estrosi, aim above all to "avoid closures which could be dramatic for children who do not go on vacation and for working families".

Cases of Covid-19 have been detected in recent days in three municipal centers welcoming children in Nice.

These screening measures concern some 33 municipal centers and municipal holiday camps (for 3,200 places) and 22 community centers (1,500 places).

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