Despite demonstrations and an ultimatum from the unions, MPs approved the new Covid law, which brings a number of new regulations starting on 1 November. Here is what will change.
Restaurants, cafés, night clubs and hotels will no longer have a say in whether to impose the CovidCheck regime or not. It becomes mandatory indoors from 1 November. Outdoors (terraces), it remains optional.
Additionally, rapid tests will no longer be offered, which means that everyone wanting access will need to present a certificate of vaccination, recovery or a certified test (PCR or antigen).
The most contentious measure, but it will soon become reality for many employees: CovidCheck can be introduced in businesses and administrations, if desired.
The Chamber of Deputies clarifies on its site that this can be imposed to access “the buildings or a part thereof”. A step that has raised many legal questions amid opposition and unions.
From 1 November, the CovidCheck regime will no longer apply to children from 6 years, but from 12 years and two months of age.
This is linked to the current vaccination campaign, since it allows adolescents to be vaccinated from their 12th birthday.
For certain gatherings, the number of people allowed will be increased from 300 to 2,000 people.
This means that gatherings between 11 and 2,000 people can be held without having to adapt the stricter restrictions - mask wearing, social distancing, mandatory seating - and that gatherings above 2,000 people will be possible under a health protocol without an actual limit to the number of participants, says the Chamber of Deputies.
These new regulations will be applicable until 18 December.
