Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace, December 16, 2020. -
Francois Mori / AP / SIPA
Emmanuel Macron greeted the start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in France and Europe on Sunday, stressing that the vaccine was a "new weapon against the virus".
"Let us pass the message on to our ancestors, protect them as a priority," he urged on Twitter, recalling that this "first step of the vaccination campaign" concerns "the elderly who live in communities as well as the professionals of vulnerable health ”.
First stage of the vaccination campaign: the elderly living in communities as well as vulnerable health professionals.
Let's pass the message on to our ancestors, let's protect them first.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 27, 2020
“The vaccine is fully covered.
No costs are to be advanced.
Let us be proud of our health system, ”he also stressed.
Macron's call to have "confidence in our researchers and doctors"
Recalling that “the vaccine will not be compulsory”, he called for “confidence in our researchers and doctors”.
"We are the country of the Enlightenment and of Pasteur, reason and science must guide us", he estimated while a majority of French people (56%) do not plan to be vaccinated against Covid- 19, according to a BVA poll published Sunday by the
JDD
and conducted from December 11 to 14.
The French campaign was symbolically launched on Sunday in a hospital in Seine-Saint-Denis with the injection of the vaccine to a 78-year-old woman and a 65-year-old cardiologist.
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