Health Minister Olivier Véran said Thursday evening that the government's goal was to have vaccinated 70 million people, or the entire French population, by the end of August.
He also asked the French to stop using homemade masks.
The government will be "able" to vaccinate 70 million people against Covid-19 by the end of August, "if all the vaccines ordered are validated by European and world health authorities", assured the Minister of Health on Thursday. , Olivier Véran.
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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 July and 70 million, that is to say the entire French population, by the end of August ", he enumerated.
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The government is asking the French to stop using homemade masks, considered insufficiently filtering in the face of the appearance of new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus, said the Minister of Health.
"The HCSP (High Council for Public Health, editor's note) recommends to the French, and this is the recommendation that I also make them, to no longer use the artisanal mask that we made at home", declared Olivier Véran, which also asks to avoid the least filtering industrial fabric masks (called "category 2").