Since Monday, Loire-Atlantique was one of the few French departments to require the presentation of the health pass to access large shopping centers (more than 20,000 m2).
This was a request from the prefect in view of the evolution of the coronavirus epidemic.
Five hypermarkets and their shopping malls, all located in the Nantes metropolitan area, were thus forced to apply the deposit despite the astonishment of customers.
But the rule has already changed this Thursday.
The Loire-Atlantique prefect indeed announces that the famous pass will no longer be compulsory there until further notice!
The government decided on Wednesday that the trigger threshold for the obligation of the health pass in large shopping centers will now be a contamination level of 200 per 100,000 inhabitants.
However in Loire-Atlantique, the incidence rate is, for the moment, 149 per 100,000 inhabitants, reports the prefecture.
The managers of the five shopping centers can therefore rejoice.
But maybe not for very long.
Because "if the health situation were to develop unfavorably, a decree prescribing the implementation of the health pass will be taken again", warns the prefect.
As a reminder, the shopping centers affected by the health pass obligation since Monday were Beaulieu and Paris (Nantes), Atlantis (Saint-Herblain), Océane (Rezé) and Pôle sud (Basse-Goulaine).
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