Nicolas Sarkozy, January 22, 2021 in Paris.

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FRANCK FIFE / AFP

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose medical follow-up is provided at the Clamart military hospital, was vaccinated against Covid-19 "on medical prescription", his entourage told AFP.

L'Express

wrote on Thursday that Nicolas Sarkozy, who has just celebrated his 66th birthday, "had the chance to be vaccinated in January at the Percy military hospital", recalling that currently, "the less of 75 years are not concerned by the vaccination with the exception of people suffering from pathologies at risk ”.

Medical confidentiality invoked

"The president was vaccinated on medical prescription," said the entourage of the former head of state, without specifying the reasons for this prescription, stressing that Nicolas Sarkozy, "like any citizen, has the right to privacy and medical confidentiality ”.

Asked Thursday about the information from

L'Express

on the occasion of the weekly press conference on the evolution of the epidemic, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had invoked "medical confidentiality".

“Nicolas Sarkozy is like any Frenchman, he has the right to medical confidentiality, so I don't have to know if he was vaccinated before the time.

We all have to follow the rules, we all have rights and duties.

They are binding on each of us, including that of benefiting from medical confidentiality.

No comment therefore, ”he said.

According to

L'Express

, Nicolas Sarkozy is annoyed by the slowness of the government's vaccination strategy, judging that it is necessary to accelerate the arrival of vaccines to set up "vaccinodromes".

France passed the million mark on Thursday who received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, while the circulation of the virus is still intense with more than 22,000 positive cases, according to figures from Public Health France (SpF).

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