The government will be "able" to vaccinate 70 million people by the end of August, "if all the vaccines ordered are validated by the European and world health authorities", assured, Thursday January 21, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.

Invited at 8 p.m. on TF1, the minister said he expected "probably 1.3 to 1.4 million" people to be vaccinated at the end of January, or more than the million announced.

Then the number of people vaccinated would rise to "4 million at the end of February, 9 million in March, 20 million at the end of April, 30 million at the end of May, 43 million at the end of June, 57 million at the end of June. end of July and 70 million, that is to say the entire French population, by the end of August, "he enumerated.

With AFP

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