The epidemic situation may not be worrying there, but there is no reason why French Polynesia should not be in the same boat as the rest of the territory. According to a decree of the High Commissioner of the Republic published in the Official Journal, the vaccination pass will therefore be extended there from February 8. It will replace the health pass required for travel between Tahiti and the other Polynesian archipelagos, concerts and discotheques, exhibitions and fairs welcoming more than 50 exhibitors, fairgrounds with more than 30 stands, or even most activities and cultural, artistic, dancing and festive events.

The health pass will remain accepted for people over 12 years and two months to visit hospitalized people or to benefit from care in health and medico-social establishments, while the archipelago has not started the vaccination of under 12 years old.

No deaths since October

The incidence rate in this community is 154 per 100,000 inhabitants, but the epidemiologist of the local Health Department, Henri-Pierre Mallet, recognizes "a certain underestimation due to a low use of screening ".

However, only one patient is hospitalized for Covid-19, while the hospital center was saturated five months earlier.

Polynesia has not deplored any deaths from Covid since October.

In August and September, a wave of the Delta variant had caused the death of at least 500 people, out of 280,000 inhabitants, in a poorly vaccinated Polynesia.

Since then, vaccination has progressed a lot but remains lower than the rate in mainland France: 77.5% of Polynesians over 12 years old have a complete vaccination schedule.

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