The executive continues to be vigilant in the face of the resumption of the epidemic. This Monday, July 4, the bill presented during the first Council of Ministers of the new government team.Temporary maintenance of the monitoring and health security system in the fight against Covid-19aims to keep certain weapons in place to respond quickly in the event of increased contamination.
has been transferred Figaro, the text currently includes only two articles. The first one amends the law of May 11, 2020 “On extending the state of health emergency”.Personal health information about people affected by this virus and people in contact with them may be processed and shared. […] as part of an information systemuntil July 31, 2022. This date has been changed to “March 31, 2023Si-dep and Si-vac systems can therefore be extended for several months.
In addition, the second article allows the government to restore restrictions on foreign travel. From August 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023, by the decision of the Prime Minister, “impose on people of at least twelve years of age who wish to travel to France or Corsica” or Foreign Territory to present a valid medical certificate at the borders. The latter can be based on a complete vaccination schedule, an updated Covid-19 recovery certificate or a negative test result.
If applicable, the pass must also be submitted “personnel involved in relevant transport services“. The rules and sanctions governing the passport previously provided by the law of May 31, 2021 are also applied here.
In a message published on Tuesday, the State Council states that “The evolution of the epidemic situation remains particularly unpredictable“. Computer file extension is “necessary in view of the public interest in identifying and supporting people who test positive– he judges. The same observation about the health passage at the borders – the durationespecially long“the extension is justified, taking into account”the special impact of the winter period on the dynamics of the epidemic and the functioning of the health system;“, the institution considers.
The State Council, however, opposes “Committee on Health Risk Monitoring and Prediction“From the beginning, the executive wanted. These experts attached to the Ministers of Health and Research were supposed to replace the scientific committee. If “specific examplewith the aim of following the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic, it is useful, isn’t it?not justifiedTo create a body generally responsible for looking at health risks, tint the council, which therefore opposes its creation. This provision, being repealed, does not appear in the bill sent to RA Figaro.
Pandemic recovery arrangements in the coming months
These provisions are “absolutely essential“At the exit of the Council of Ministers, Olivier Veran, the spokesman of the government and the former minister of health, justified it. this “A monitoring and health security system is essential over the next few months and until the end of the next winter period to follow the evolution of the epidemic and be able to make recommendations and take any other necessary and proportionate measures that may be necessary to do so. They demand“, we also read in the minutes of the meeting.
Health authorities have confirmed this orientation.delighted by this return to announced but cautious normalization“, assures the executive, adding that he “useful» maintain proportionate measures for possible emergency and epidemic recovery next winter.
The Law Commission begins its work this Tuesday with a hearing from new Health Minister Francois Brown at 3:30 p.m. The text is then due to be examined in public on Monday, days after Elizabeth Bourne announced the general policy and tabled the Purchasing Power Bill in the Council of Ministers. The text can be changed according to the contributions of the parliamentary groups.
Due to the rapid spread of Ba.5 and Ba.4 subtypes in France, the Covid-19 epidemic has started to increase again in recent weeks. In early July, an average of more than 100,000 cases were detected each day, compared to less than 20,000 a month earlier. Pressure on the hospital remains limited at this time, and health authorities remain vigilant but hopeful. the peak of this seventh wave can be reached precisely by “end of JulyAccording to Jean-Francois Delfressie, president of the Scientific Council, who believes that:summer will not be spoiled by vaccinations“.
Source: Le Figaro
