French court to rule on Macron's COVID-19 health pass rules

FILE PHOTO: People jog on the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Paris, France, August 1, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

PARIS (Reuters) - France's constitutional court will rule on Thursday whether a new law requiring the public to hold a health pass to eat in restaurants and health workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-September complies with the republic's founding charter.

President Emmanuel Macron announced the proposed legislation in July as the Delta variant fuelled a fourth wave of infections, delivering a plain message: get vaccinated.