Pedagogy and firmness. The day after the 7th consecutive day of demonstration against the health pass, the government persists and signs. Invited this Sunday of the Grand Jury of RTL / LCI

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government spokesman Gabriel Attal refuted any “fetishism of the health pass. "" Nobody likes the sanitary pass. In an ideal world, there would be no health pass. There would be no virus either, ”he insisted. Distinguishing the movements carried by "a form of hysterization" of citizens worried about being vaccinated, Gabriel Attal to invite those who oppose the health pass "to prepare an alternative. "

The government fully intends to defend this measure, including through the courts.

"We have decided to appeal" the decisions to suspend the compulsory health pass in certain shopping centers "announced Gabriel Attal.

A decision that follows the suspensions of the obligation to present a health pass announced this week for shopping centers in Yvelines, Haut-Rhin and Essonne.

Regarding the extension this Monday of the health pass for employees working in places where it is compulsory for the public, Gabriel Attal promised a week "of flexibility, of pedagogy, of running in as we did at each deadline."

"We tend towards 50 million French people who have received a first dose"

On the executive side, we prefer to congratulate ourselves on the progress of vaccination: "We have just crossed the million French people vaccinated thanks to our outward operations", with "the work we do with associations , local communities to pick up people who cannot, for various reasons, come to the point of vaccination, ”explained the government spokesperson.

"It is a million people who probably would not have been vaccinated if we had not been looking for them at the foot of their building, via associations which are used to accompanying them", added Gabriel Attal.

In total "we are tending towards 50 million French people having received a first dose", he congratulated himself, assuring that "yes, we will reach 50 million in a few days" but "I cannot tell you how date exactly ”.

Mandatory vaccination still possible

Prime Minister Jean Castex called on August 20 "not to give up any lever to encourage vaccination".

Asked about the issue of compulsory vaccination, he estimated that "it can come at a time", stressing that the Head of State had mentioned this possibility in his speech of July 12.

"If we had approached this vaccination campaign by saying that the vaccine was compulsory, I am not sure that we would be at the result today", he nevertheless argued.

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