In the spotlight: the variant vaccines race in France
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AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine.
AP - Frank Augstein
By: Norbert Navarro
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The good news is that vaccine shipments will accelerate.
“
First breath of fresh air next Thursday,
Le Parisien Dimanche
tip
.
That's it, the immunizing vials are arriving at general practitioners.
550,000 units of AstraZeneca's product, inexpensive and easy to store, will be delivered to them.
Destination the arm of patients 50 to 64 years old with a risk of developing a severe form of the disease
”.
And this horizon will become even clearer with "
the imminent arrival of a fourth vaccine
", rejoices this newspaper in One.
The bad
news
,
Le Parisien Dimanche
admits
, is that the AstraZeneca vaccine has “
bad press
”.
But this newspaper encourages its readers not to "
be choosy
" because France has a very short "
window of fire
" before the British variant of the coronavirus "
takes power
" at the beginning of March.
Sixty-year-old Sarko already vaccinated
He was vaccinated when he was only 66 years old, it is the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, revealed
L'Express
.
The former President of the Republic "
was lucky enough to be able to be vaccinated in January at the Percy military hospital
" in Clamart, near Paris, the weekly website announced in the middle of the week.
Which obviously does not fail to recall that currently, "
those under 75 are not affected by vaccination with the exception of people with at-risk pathologies
".
Sarko vaccinated before time?
At the end of the week, his entourage let it be known that the former head of state, as
L'Express
had revealed
, had indeed been vaccinated, but "
on medical prescription
".
"Islamo-leftism", Frédérique Vidal persists and signs
Something new in the controversy over "
Islamo-leftism
" (which you told us about yesterday): the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal maintains the investigation into "
attacks on secularism
" in universities.
Despite a call for her resignation launched by 600 academics in a column published yesterday by the newspaper
Le Monde
, on the grounds that the minister would "
hover the threat of intellectual repression
", Frédérique Vidal indeed maintains in
Le Journal du Dimanche
the "
need for an inventory of what is being done in research in France on these subjects
”, while specifying wanting to know whether academic freedoms“
are not hampered in the work of researchers and teacher-researchers
”.
In
Le JDD
, Frédérique Vidal denies wanting to set up a “
thought police
”.
Niger: the call to maintain Issoufou's “Barkhane”
Second round of the presidential election today in Niger.
Opportunity chosen by outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou to discuss the security situation in the Sahel and call for the retention of the French military force “Barkhane”.
This is "
not the time to ease off and disengage,
"
the Nigerien president
told
Journal du Dimanche.
France has understood this and will remain by our side
”.
But the African countries members of the G5 will also intensify their efforts, Mahamadou Issoufou signaling to the
JDD
that they will "
strengthen as much as possible
" this armed coalition with France, "in
particular with the scheduled dispatch to the region of 3,000 men of the African Union
”.
Asked about the temptation of the third term - which Mahamadou Issoufou resisted - the Nigerien head of state is giving his claw to his counterparts who, for their part, gave in by declaring, without naming them, that "
democracy needs breathing.
And breathing is alternation
”.
In this interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
, Mahamadou Issoufou also returns to the war in Libya by noting that he was "
not even informed in 2011 of the intervention in Libya while (he) heads a border country."
And today, I am paying the price for this mistake by the international community.
Is it democratic?
», Asks Mahamadou Issoufou in
Le JDD
.
A certain president who was vaccinated early may have the answer ...
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