Americans who are vaccinated or able to show a negative Covid-19 test result may be able to travel to France as soon as this summer, French President Emmanuel Macron told CBS News’s “Face the Nation” this morning.
France is currently in its third national lockdown but Macron said that his country’s vaccine rollout is picking up steam. “Because of the fact that we accelerated production in Europe, we are definitely catching up and we will be in the situation to meet our targets with what we have now,” said the French president.
“We will progressively lift the restrictions of the beginning of May, which means that we will organize in the summertime with our professionals in France for French European citizens, but as well for American citizens,” said Macron. “So we are working hard to propose a very concrete solution, especially for U.S. citizens who are vaccinated, so with a special pass, I would say.”
The White House and Élysée Palace are “finalizing the technical discussions” on how to reopen travel, said Macron. “We are building a European certificate to facilitate the travels after these restrictions between the different European countries with testing and vaccination.”
He was referring to the European Union’s plans for a digital green certificate that will contain proof that an individual has either been fully vaccinated against the disease or received a recent negative test result or have recovered recently from Covid-19.
The European Union has been working on this digital health certificate for months. In January, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union Commission, said that she supports creating a common EU-established vaccination certificate and even suggested that such a certificate should be a “medical requirement.”
“And the idea indeed is altogether to offer that to the American citizen when they decided to vaccinate or with a PCR test being negative. So the idea is indeed to always control the virus, to maximize the vaccination and to progressively lift the restrictions,” said the French president.
Macron stressed the importance of a worldwide coordinated effort to help the entire world have access to the vaccine. “If we don't vaccinate in these countries, there is no way to get rid of the virus,” he said. “Because if we leave this country is being contaminated by Covid-19 in South and Latin America, in Africa, you will have more and more people being contaminated. You will have new variants and they will come back in our countries. So I think this is not sufficient just to be focused on the rich countries.”
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