In the spotlight: a new day of mobilization of anti-health pass in France
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Nearly 161,000 demonstrators took to the streets against the extension of the health pass on Saturday July 24, 2021. © REUTERS / BENOIT TESSIER
By: Norbert Navarro
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Third Saturday of mobilization against the vaccination of caregivers and the "health pass".
Demonstrations are planned in Paris and in several dozen provincial towns.
According to the Interior Ministry, 160,000 people are expected throughout France, a mobilization comparable to that of last week.
In Paris, more than 3,000 police officers will be assigned to complete the security system.
Within the executive, the time is rather for concern.
"
We must be vigilant,"
said a minister to the newspaper
Le Parisien.
The base that supports Macron is broader than the opponents, but the anti are more radicalized.
»What worries the executive?
"
The prospect of seeing a reoccurrence of a movement like that of the yellow vests which, two years ago, had fractured the country for months,
" explains
Le Parisien
.
Anti-Macron agitation?
A movement of discontent that the executive is starting to perceive as anti-Macron agitation, but whose importance it tries to put into perspective. As during the "yellow vests", the repeated images of anti-pass mobilizations every Saturday "
put pressure on the public authorities
", notes an observer in the daily
Le Figaro
. "
It is a movement with various causes with excesses among some, not to mention political instrumentalisation
", a source in the entourage of the Head of State told this newspaper, where one points to "
the slippage of demonstrations towards a protest more oriented against Emmanuel Macron than against the health pass
”. But the Walkers "
relativize
", Completes
Le Figaro
, they do not imagine"
a popular impetus in favor of the protest movement
(...)
Macronists bet on the exasperation of vaccinated against opponents, and especially on the fact that the health pass is generalizes across the world.
"
Except that in the United States, “parties” and “factions” are tearing each other apart on the question of principle of the freedoms constrained to cope with the spread of the coronavirus, reports the same
Figaro
.
“
Some, especially Democrats, see vaccination as a matter of life and death.
The others, especially Republicans, make it a matter of principle and fundamental freedom, consider that the vaccine remains experimental and therefore refuse any pressure from the administration on this subject,
”summarizes
this newspaper
.
Which predicts that the controversy in the United States should last "
as long as the virus
".
Official data on hospitalized patients
Since Friday, in France, we finally have official national data on the profile of hospitalized patients. According to a study - the first of its kind - by the research, studies, evaluation and statistics department, carried out from May 31 to July 11, "
ie a period when the epidemic was in sharp decline
", underlines
Le Parisien
, “
the proportion of people who have not received any dose of vaccine among those hospitalized is 85
%, almost twice as much as that of unvaccinated people in the general population (45
%) on average during the period. period of study
”, points out this newspaper. Conversely, "
completely vaccinated patients (…) represent 7% of hospital admissions (knowing that 35% of the French population is vaccinated)
”, recalls this daily.
A study which “
confirms the effectiveness of vaccination,
” underlines
Le Parisien
.
However, he moderates, "
we would also like to know whether the efficacy of vaccines is reduced against the Delta variant, but these data do not allow us to say so
".
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