Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin declared that they will strengthen vigilance on the use of fraudulent passes in the country.
The french government is competing to expand the use of their vaccination passport, called a ‘health pass’ or ‘health pass’ (a QR code that proof that the carrier has received full vaccination, or has tested negative for Covid in the last 72 hours) cultural venue, transportation, restaurants, etc., after Covid-19 infections soared due to the more infectious Delta variant.
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The French Ministry of the Interior indicated this Monday that 182,000 falsified health passes have been detected since it was decreed its compulsory to access most of the public places last summer.
In addition, it indicated that some 400 investigations have been opened about this type of scams.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin ordered reinforce vigilance on the use of passes fraudulent and last Thursday announced the arrest of a hundred people, both users and traffickers of this type of document.
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The imposition of the health certificate for many acts of social life such as go to a bar, restaurant, show or stadium aims to promote vaccination in France, where almost 90% of injection candidates have already been immunized, according to official data.
The Government has made it a priority to reach the 10% that has not yet wanted to prick.
To do this, in addition to intensifying the fight against fake passes, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced last Friday that from February only vaccination would be used to have the certificate health and not a negative test, as it happens until now. (I)
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