Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Friday that professionals who must apply the health pass from Monday in their establishments would have "a week of break-in" to appropriate the tool.

For his part, Emmanuel Macron once again called on the French to be vaccinated.

Professionals who must apply the health pass on Monday at the entrance to their establishments will have "a week of breaking in" to "appropriate it", government spokesman Gabriel Attal confirmed on Friday.

Asked, during a trip to Avignon on vaccination, on a possible tolerance the first days in the application of the device, he recalled that Prime Minister Jean Castex had promised in July "a week of lapping in the implementation of the health pass ".

"This constraint makes it possible to guarantee that these places can remain open"

"It is a new tool for a certain number of professionals, they must be able to appropriate it", explained Gabriel Attal, assuring that the government "does not ignore" the "impact" of the past in terms of day-to-day organization, "especially when you are a restaurant owner and when you have a large terrace". "It is an additional constraint, but this constraint makes it possible to ensure that these places can remain open", he argued: "If we did not have this tool, we probably would have had to close a number of places. "in view of the fourth wave which appeared in July.

Regarding the hospital, the government wants to "make it a sanctuary vis-à-vis the epidemic," said Gabriel Attal.

"Now, of course, when you have an emergency or when you come to accompany a patient at the end of life, we are not going to ask you for a health pass to enter the hospital. It is common sense and it is obviously a humanism demonstrated on a daily basis by all health professionals, ”he added.

He also estimated that the target of 50 million people who received a first dose of anti-Covid vaccine by the end of August should be reached, calling for "to continue this vaccine sprint".

Attal denounces "a very small minority" in "political instrumentalisation"

Asked about anti-pass and anti-vaccination demonstrations, Gabriel Attal distinguished the people who "most sincerely doubt the world" from "a very small minority" who are "in a political instrumentalisation of the epidemic, of the sanitary pass, for purposes sometimes electoral, media ", which is" irresponsible ".

The law extending the health pass to new public places, including restaurants and cafes, and establishing a vaccination obligation for caregivers was published in the Official Journal on Friday, the day after the green light given by the Constitutional Council.

"Get vaccinated": Macron launches a new urgent appeal to the French

"Get vaccinated": Emmanuel Macron launched on Friday, in a twelfth video, an urgent call for vaccination but also thanked the French for "following the rules", while the extended health pass is to come into force on Monday. In this "last message to conclude", shot from the living room of Fort Brégançon (Var), the Head of State repeats his appeal several times, invoking citizenship, responsibility and the protection of others and his relatives.

"First of all, a big thank you to our restaurateurs, our cafeterias, our directors of cinemas, theaters, festivals, I know the efforts that are required of them and I thank them very much". "Thank you to each of you for accepting these collective rules," he begins, referring to the pass that will be required for these public places. "And then a second very simple message: get vaccinated, get vaccinated, get vaccinated. Freedom is worth nothing if we infect our brother, our neighbor, our friend, our parents or someone we are going to. to cross in an event. It is no longer to be free, it is to become irresponsible, "he pleads.

"It is a question of citizenship, it is the very pact of a nation," he insists.

Emmanuel Macron has been leading a teaching exercise since Monday, answering doubts about the vaccine, in videos shot in selfie, in casual dress, from his summer residence.

Posted on Instagram and TikTok, favorite networks of young people, they have achieved great audience success with already more than 49 million views.

While the vaccine campaign is advancing rapidly since the Head of State's decision to impose a health pass for public places, new calls to demonstrate against the pass were launched across France for Saturday.

Last weekend, the protest against the pass brought together more than 200,000 people, according to the Interior Ministry.