Gérald Darmanin announced on Wednesday that he had, on the instruction of Emmanuel Macron, asked the prefects to tighten the controls of the health pass, the number of which has halved in recent weeks, while the Covid-19 epidemic is experiencing a rebound.
“The President of the Republic, given the increase in the incidence rate, the coming winter, the virus which circulates more, asked me to ask the prefects, the police officers and the gendarmes to control more, as before” , declared the Minister of the Interior on Europe 1. “We had roughly in September 50,000 people who were checked every week and about 8,000 establishments. If I look at the figures for last week, it was about half, ”he detailed.
Faced with the epidemic rebound, with “an increase of 40% in one week in the incidence rate”, Emmanuel Macron put pressure on the seniors this Tuesday evening to be injected with a booster dose, on pain of losing their health pass from December 15. After the speech of the Head of State, the Ministry of National Education also announced the return of the wearing of the compulsory mask in elementary school from Monday throughout France.