Status: 05.09.2021 12:23 a.m.
The protest against the Macron government’s corona rules continues: There have been demonstrations across the country for the eighth weekend in a row. But the influx is weaker – and a majority supports the president.
In France, on the eighth weekend in a row, more than a hundred thousand people demonstrated against the stricter Corona rules. According to the Interior Ministry, more than 140,000 people took to the streets on Saturday, more than 18,000 of them in Paris.
However, the number of participants has declined more and more in recent weeks: in July and August, more than 200,000 people took to the streets on several Saturdays.
The demonstrations were directed against the health passport required by President Emmanuel Macron and the government to prove vaccination, recovery or negative test and the compulsory vaccination of certain professional groups, including health workers. The health passport, which can be saved in the nationwide Corona app, is now required, among other things, to visit museums, theaters, cinemas, cafes and restaurants and when traveling by long-distance train or plane.
Two out of three people fully vaccinated
In the country with 67 million inhabitants, two thirds of the people are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, 72.3 percent have received a first vaccination dose. At the same time, the number of hospital admissions for corona patients is falling, and the seven-day incidence is falling.
According to a survey published on Friday by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting for the daily newspaper “Le Figaro”, 67 percent of the French are in favor of the introduction of the health passport.