The government published Sunday in the Official Journal the decree allowing the return to work of caregivers not vaccinated against Covid-19, who had been suspended from their duties since August 2021. "The obligation to vaccinate against Covid-19 provided for in Article 12 of the above-mentioned law of 5 August 2021 is suspended," says the decree issued overnight. It thus lifts the vaccination obligation of caregivers and therefore authorizes their return.

The conditions for this return, which include that the suspended person is reinstated in the same or an "equivalent" position, were defined by the government in a ministerial instruction issued two weeks ago, to give hospitals and other health facilities time to prepare.



The government retains the possibility of suspending the unvaccinated again if the pandemic starts again, by a new decree. The PCF group in the National Assembly voted on May 4 a bill definitively repealing the vaccination obligation against Covid-19, which would prohibit any return of suspensions. But the government opposes it, and the bill has not yet been considered by the Senate. In total, this measure concerns from a few thousand to "20 to 40,000 people", according to Elsa Ruillère, elected CGT Health, out of the 2.7 million people subject to a vaccination obligation.

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