Covid-19: the hiccups of the health pass for French people living abroad vaccinated
A waiter checks a client's sanitary pass at a café terrace in southwestern France on August 11, 2021. AP - Bob Edme
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During these holiday periods, many French people living abroad come to spend a few days in mainland France.
In principle, they can request a health pass for vaccine equivalence.
But it is not always easy.
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With
Frédérique Genot,
from the France service of RFI
Hugo is French.
He studies in Canada and comes to spend the end of year holidays with his family.
And he is astonished to have passed the controls so easily at the airport: “
I have a Canadian pass with an international extension which apparently worked at the airport but does not work anywhere else.
"
The young man has made his request for
an equivalence
health pass
.
But the QR code which appears on its Canadian document is not readable by French devices.
However, he passed without a hitch.
Maybe because he came from a green area.
Inaccurate deadlines
Antonia's father is a Frenchman who lives in Chile.
He was
vaccinated
twice with Sinovac, then a third time with Pfizer.
He did apply for a pass ten days before leaving.
But it didn't help.
“
My father came last week,”
explains Antonia
.
He gave all his papers to the embassy to get his French health pass.
But the deadlines are not really exact.
They said he was 11 days old, he was right on time.
But in the end, it took 19-20 days.
So he did not have his pass and had to do antigenic tests every day to be able to move in France between trains, restaurants, Ephad ...
"
In his father's case, the vaccine equivalence health pass was finally issued upon his return to Chile.
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