France mandates Covid health pass for restaurants and cafés
by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5M434)
The permits will also be required for entry to hospitals, shopping centres and to board long-distance trains
Anyone entering a restaurant, cafe, shopping centre, hospital or taking a long-distance train in France will have to show a special Covid health pass from August, Emmanuel Macron has announced, as France tightens restrictions to contain the surging Delta variant.
The same Covid health pass - which shows that a person has been vaccinated or had a recent negative Covid test - will be similarly required for anyone over the age of 12 to enter a cinema, theatre, museum, theme park or cultural centre from as early as 21 July, the president said, in a bid to pressure more French people to take up vaccines.
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