The anti-Covid vaccine booster campaign, which will begin in mid-September, will affect around 5 million French people.
These people deemed to have priority to receive this third dose are elderly people or people at "very high risk", said the Ministry of Health on Thursday during its weekly press briefing on vaccination against Covid-19.
This figure mainly includes residents of nursing homes and long-term care units (USLD), people over 80 living "at home", as well as patients "at very high risk of severe form" of Covid and “immunocompromised” patients.
"This first circle can be completed"
Although to date there is "no stabilized scientific opinion on the categories that could benefit from this booster dose", these are the subject of a "consensus" between the High Authority for Health ( HAS), the Scientific Council and the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council.
"This first circle can be completed" by other audiences, added the ministry.
The list of the populations concerned must still be formally established by the HAS, with a view to opening the appointments on September 1, for injections from September 15.
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