Paris (AFP)

François Bayrou, president of the MoDem and High Commissioner for Planning, said he was in favor on Sunday of the idea of ​​a health passport, which would condition the access of certain places to vaccination against Covid-19.

Faced with the outcry over a bill on health emergencies establishing the possibility of making certain trips conditional on vaccination, the government has postponed for "several months" the submission of the text to parliament.

Asked about LCI on the subject, he estimated that "one can quite imagine that, that in a certain way the fact of being subjected to the vaccination opens doors which until then were closed".

This is "the natural sense of things", he said, defending "all the efforts that can be made" to "find life as normal as possible", from the moment that "has been verified that, one, the vaccine is effective, two, that it is safe ".

"To go in this direction today, we only have the hope of the vaccine," he said, on the first day of the vaccination campaign in France and Europe.

As for the many French people skeptical of the vaccine, Mr. Bayrou estimated that "once we have verified" that it is "without risk" - which "will be done in a few days or a few weeks" - "then the demand for vaccines will increase a lot and we will reach massive figures which will make it possible to defeat the epidemic ".

If the government has denied any attempt to create a "health state", the National Rally and the right have seen in recent days in the bill the risk of a possible restriction on freedom of movement.

In its article 3131-9, in the 6th paragraph, the text provides that "the Prime Minister may, where appropriate (...) make the movement of persons, their access to means of transport or to certain places, as well as the carrying out certain activities when presenting the results of a screening test establishing that the person is not affected or contaminated, following a preventive treatment, including the administration of a vaccine, or a cure".

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