Delta variant propagation - activities

Covid: Tests will stay free of charge for vaccinated adults past October 15th

As France is preparing for a fifth coronavirus epidemic wave - expected to hit this Fall - the population has to comply with the health pass now extended to many public places. Prime Minister Jean Castex also confirmed "comfort" screening tests will be charged from October 15, 2021... Before adding that only unvaccinated adults will have to pay for these tests if not prescribed by a doctor.

Health pass: the detailed list of places where the pass is compulsory in

As the spread of the Delta variant makes people fear a fourth coronavirus epidemic wave is to hit the country very soon, extra measures have been made on Monday July 12, 2021. Emmanuel Macron announces the health pass is extended - starting from early August - to more public venues. Among them: bars, cafés and restaurants, shopping malls, as well as transit such as trains and planes. Discover the detailed list.

Covid: according to infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux a third dose of vaccine is “ineluctable”

As the French government is encouraging the French to get vaccinated, the time for a third dose has come for the first ones to have been given their injections. According to infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux, this third dose is “ineluctable”. Meet from September for the booster shot.

Coronavirus: France officially enters the fourth wave

Because of the increase in the spread of the Delta variant – a strain more contagious than the previous ones – the coronavirus epidemic is breaking out again in France. Now, the country officially enters the fourth wave.

"We need vaccination to go fast" to stop the 4th wave, epidemiologists consider

The fourth wave challenge is a challenge caused by the coronavirus epidemic and the spread of the Delta variant starting this summer. To block the threat, vaccination seems to be the main weapon, according to epidemiologists Philippe Amouyel and Vittoria Colizza.