Threat of restrictions on the unvaccinated in France already paying off

The threat of restrictions for the unvaccinated in France, with the impossibility in a few days to go to a bar or a restaurant or to ride on public transport, is already having results with an increase in those who are punctured for the first time.

A total of 230,000 people who had not been vaccinated received their first dose during the past week, announced this Monday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, in an appearance in the Senate where the bill on the certificate of vaccination.

This is the number of people vaccinated for the first time since last September.

Véran stressed that even before the bill that will impose the vaccination certificate instead of the health certificate is approved and enters into force, it is already producing effects and was convinced that the trend of last week will continue.

At the end of last week, there were more than 52 million people with the complete guideline, which means 77.2% of the total population but more than 90% of adults.

On Tuesday of last week, the president, Emmanuel Macron, unleashed a great controversy in an interview in which he warned that with the unvaccinated, his intention was to “annoy them” or “screw them”, which are two possible translations of the verb that he used. , “Emmerder”.

Véran made an effort today to make the case for vaccination and explained that, with the data they have collected during the wave of the omicron variant, people who have the full regimen (usually two doses) and also a booster dose have a 95% less likely to develop a severe form of COVID-19 than those who are not immunized at all.

That protection is 90% for those who have the complete schedule and have been punctured less than six months ago, but it drops to 60% after six months.

RNA vaccines, such as Pfizer or Moderna, also reduce the risk of infection: 55% with the two doses and 85% with the booster.

The bill to impose the vaccination certificate was approved in the first reading last Thursday in the National Assembly and the Government hopes that this week, once examined by the Senate, it can be definitively adopted by Parliament for entry into force next week.

In this way, you will have to have the complete guideline to have a drink in a bar or a restaurant, but also to go to the cinema, to a show, to a stadium and also to travel on long-distance public transport (buses, trains , planes or ships).