Thu Feb 17, 2022 – 12:42 pm EST
PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — The spokesman for the French government under President Emmanuel Macron, Gabriel Attal, said that the vaccine passport imposed on France since January “could be lifted mid-March” — just before the presidential election.
Attal made the comment Wednesday evening on French TV channel CNews as he evoked a briefing given by French Health Minister Olivier Véran that same day on France Info, another French channel.
“What Olivier Véran said this morning, is that, yes, from mid-March we could start lifting the vaccine passport [and] start relaxing [COVID] measures. He mentioned the mask [mandates], he mentioned the vaccine passport, he explained that we might have to keep it for certain venues for a few weeks still — he gave the example of nightclubs,” explained Attal.
The vaccine passport has been imposed in France since January 2022, but is only a more restrictive version of the so-called “health pass” which has been in place since August 2021.
Until January 2022, the “health pass” still made it possible for unvaccinated people in France to access restaurants, cafés, museums, sports and leisure venues, provided they showed a negative COVID test. With the new
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