France will link the maintenance of the sanitary paste, the document necessary for a normal daily life, with the administration of the booster dose of vaccine against COVID-19 for people over 65, the French president announced, Emmanuel Macron.
The booster dose of the vaccine will become mandatory in December for those over 65 years old so they can keep their health pass, as he said.
“For those over 65, “from December 15 you will have to justify with a booster dose of the vaccine the extension of your health pass,” he said in his televised address as infections rose again in France.
He also announced that the possibility of being vaccinated with this booster dose will be extended to people over 50 years old from next month and called on French people who have not yet been vaccinated to do so “in the face of the resurgence of the epidemic”.
Emmanuel Macron said that the increase in Covid-19 cases and the figures of hospitalisations due to Covid are alarming.
He called for accelerated vaccination with booster doses for the elderly and vulnerable citizens and said a third dose would be given to people aged 50 to 64 years from early December.
Macron warned of a fifth wave of infections in Europe and urged the small minority of French citizens who have not been vaccinated to do so. “Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated to protect yourself. Get vaccinated to live normally,” the French president said.
