Foreign tourists who come to France will have to put their hand in the wallet to take advantage of certain activities. Gabriel Attal said in an interview with Echoes that the Covid-19 detection tests will become “paying as of July 7” for these people. They will be charged “up to 49 euros for PCRs and 29 euros for antigens,” added the government spokesperson. For him, it is a question of “a question of reciprocity knowing that these tests are paying in most of the countries for the French people who travel”.
Gabriel Attal, who had estimated Monday that it was necessary to “wonder” on this question, recalled that “the tourists who come to us are obviously subjected to the sanitary pass”. More broadly, the question of the delisting of so-called “comfort” PCR tests will obviously arise “for the start of the school year” for the French, he repeated.
Compulsory vaccination of caregivers envisaged
As regards the vaccination of caregivers, “we have so far made the choice of conviction rather than coercion, but this could change” because “we cannot accept any risk-taking for the residents of nursing homes linked to caregivers unvaccinated, ”he added. Jean Castex announced Wednesday that he would launch “in the coming days” a consultation with associations of local elected officials and the presidents of parliamentary groups around the compulsory vaccination of caregivers.
In addition Gabriel Attal assured that “there will be a pension reform. The question is not “if”, but “when”, namely in the fall or next year ”. “I hear the reservations of the social partners, but there is a political decision to be taken, we will take it, in particular depending on the epidemic and the extent of the recovery of the economy,” he said. added, explaining that “if the economic revival is confirmed this summer and at the start of the school year, and the epidemic situation is under control, it is possible to act and initiate a movement”.