Macron ensures that all French people who wish will be vaccinated by the end of the summer
French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace on February 1, 2021. AP - Michel Euler
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A third authorized vaccine and the promise to have vaccinated "all French people who want it by the end of the summer": the government is trying to move up a gear in its management of the Covid-19 epidemic after having refused to impose a new containment immediately.
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On the eve of a new Defense Council, Emmanuel Macron assured Tuesday evening on TF1 that "
by the end of the summer, we will have offered a vaccine to all French people who want it
".
The Head of State, who had brought together just before the large French and European laboratories to encourage them to accelerate the production of vaccines, also estimated that, "at the
beginning of March
", the 80% of the residents of nursing homes will have been vaccinated. wish, that is to say 500,000 people.
"
It is not our vaccination strategy that will make it possible
to avoid, in the short term, a re-containment
or not,
" he nevertheless estimated, inviting the French to mobilize and to respect the barrier gestures.
It is “
collectively a question
of being extraordinarily responsible, as our fellow citizens have been for several weeks, and I thank them very deeply for that
”.
A third vaccine with AstraZeneca
Since Tuesday, the French have had a third vaccine against Covid-19:
that of AstraZeneca
, but not for those over 65, for lack of data currently available on its effectiveness in this age group.
Even with restrictions, the arrival of this new vaccine could give a boost to a vaccination campaign that is leveling off, with vaccination centers having to postpone appointments already set for the first dose.
From the end of February-beginning of March, four pharmaceutical sites in France will start producing anti-Covid vaccines, Emmanuel Macron also announced.
According to a last report Monday evening, there were more than 1.54 million first injections in France, while 2.6 million doses have already been received in France and 1.1 million more are expected by the end. of the week, according to ministry data.
The coronavirus is still actively circulating in the country, with more than 23,000 positive cases in the last 24 hours on Tuesday evening.
(With
AFP
)
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