Government spokesman Gabriel Attal warned this Sunday against the “vaccine divide” which could cause “resentment between the French” vaccinated and the others. “We must avoid a situation where the epidemic would resume in particular because of people who have not been vaccinated and would require to take restrictive measures that would be imposed on people who have made the effort to be vaccinated “, He said on Radio J.
“We see the beginnings of this resentment, we must remain united at all costs,” he added. “We are roughly in the situation we experienced between the end of July and the beginning of August last but it is true that there are reasons to be concerned with this Delta variant”, also underlined Gabriel Attal. Prime Minister Jean Castex is to receive from this Monday the leaders of Parliament and local elected officials to address, among other things, the issue of the obligation to vaccinate caregivers.
“Vaccination does not have to be compulsory in the general population”
“Today, our working environment is the caregivers, not beyond the caregivers,” said Gabriel Attal, stressing that “the question of compulsory vaccination for the entire population at this stage does not arise. “, Even if he learned” never to exclude anything for the future on principle “. “We will not force the French to be vaccinated, vaccination does not have to be compulsory in the general population,” Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Friday.
“What I can tell you is that the president will speak soon”, “probably” before July 14, also confirmed Gabriel Attal, without specifying the “format” of the intervention. Emmanuel Macron is due to speak by mid-July to set the course for the end of the five-year term, in particular on the reforms he wishes to launch and possibly on a “technical” reshuffle.