• As a new wave of coronavirus hits Europe, several countries have taken enforcement action.

    Austria is confined on Monday for 20 days, some regions of Germany refuse unvaccinated in restaurants and Sweden has introduced a first vaccination pass.

  • In France, the executive does not want to hear about the containment of the unvaccinated and wants to maintain the health pass as it is, while wanting to accelerate the recall campaign.

  • Its good vaccination coverage and the proximity of the presidential election explain this reluctance to take strong decisions.

The new wave of coronavirus does not meet the same dikes all over Europe. Submerged, Austria has taken a radical decision: total containment as of Monday, and compulsory vaccination from February 1. Sweden finally establishes a vaccination pass, while Germany is scattered, stuck between a disparate epidemic situation and the policies of its

Länder

. In Paris, on the other hand, the government seems to have adopted the city's motto,

fluctuat nec mergitur

.

What bends is the age of opening to the booster dose, pulled down by time.

"It has now been six months that some young people have been vaccinated, it is normal to make their booster", explains to

20 Minutes

Marie-Aline Bloch, researcher in management sciences at the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health.

The HAS therefore recommends opening it to people over 40 from December.

But what does not break is the health pass, which Olivier Véran does not wish to modify, and the freedom of movement for all, the hypothesis of a confinement of the unvaccinated was ruled out by Emmanuel Macron in

the Voices of the North

.

Risks of violence and recuperation

Why does the government insist on staying the course, when more than 22,000 new cases were reported on Saturday? "We must not forget that we are in an election period", points out Marie-Aline Bloch, for whom coercive measures carry "a risk of political recovery". The government therefore does not want to "exacerbate the discontent" with a view to the re-election of Emmanuel Macron. Thus, the "yellow vests", who again demonstrated in Paris on Saturday, have integrated the opposition to the health pass as a major demand. As the clashes are already regular with the police, the government would seek to prevent the situation from degenerating as in the Netherlands.

The government has reintroduced a partial containment there, planning to ban certain places such as bars and restaurants to the unvaccinated, causing an epidermal reaction.

In Rotterdam, 51 people were arrested and two were shot and wounded after another night of violence.

Germany is in turn considering such a measure.

Some Länder very affected by the epidemic, such as Saxony, have thus moved from the 3G rule (“geimpft, genesen, getestet” for “vaccinated, restored, tested”) to the 2G rule, excluding people from certain places. only tested.

Wider vaccination coverage

Olivier Véran's assertion before the Senate, taken up by Emmanuel Macron, who claims that "the countries which confine the unvaccinated are those which have not implemented the pass", is thus totally false. Austria even implemented its "green pass" on May 19, well before France. As for Germany, the health pass was adopted nationally on 23 August, before being abolished or reduced in the Länder not very affected. A bit like giving up the mask in primary school in France. But a few weeks after making the tests paid, excluding them from the health pass would be politically complicated and would further weaken the monitoring of the epidemic.

Nevertheless, France "has a higher vaccination rate than other countries" underlines Marie-Aline Bloch. About 75% of the population of France is fully vaccinated, against 66% for Austria for example. This makes it possible to reduce the pressure on the hospital system, and therefore to avoid this new confinement which would be "difficult to verify" according to the researcher.

To limit the damage of the third wave, the government is therefore relying on the third dose, which must first protect people at risk.

"What is annoying is not the contaminations, because those for whom the disease is benign will then be immunized", explains Marie-Aline Bloch.

This is also the only departure from the immutable health pass that the executive has authorized: to condition its validity to the booster dose for those over 65 from December 15.

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