All vaccinated nursing home residents will be able to leave establishments without testing, announced the Minister of Autonomy, who has just published a light health protocol.

For the moment, 87% of residents have received their first injection, 62% the second. 

The noose loosens for nursing home residents.

Residents protected by a full vaccination - two injections followed by a period of 15 days - will be able to go to their relatives without being tested and isolate themselves for seven days in their room, announced the Minister in charge of Autonomy, Brigitte. Bourguignon, in the columns of the

Parisian

.

Inside the establishments, collective activities are again authorized, the doors of the rooms "open to families" and the Plexiglas walls removed.

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"We invent the vaccine passport for nursing home residents"

So far, 87% of residents have received their first injection, 62% the second.

As for unvaccinated people, they will also be allowed to go out but will still have to respect a seven-day isolation on their return to the establishment.

A differentiation that annoys Yann Reboulleau, president of the Philogéris group, nursing home manager.

"There is a specific regime for unvaccinated residents. In a way, we are inventing the vaccination passport for nursing home residents and for relatives who come to visit," he points out. 

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However, this protocol only represents government recommendations.

Each facility management must develop these flexible measures according to the local epidemic situation and the progress of the vaccination campaign, in conjunction with the Regional Health Agency.

In some establishments, residents were also already allowed to go out, whether or not they were vaccinated.