Vaccination is accelerating.

France is hoping for three million more injections against Covid-19 this week, the Minister of Health said on Tuesday, May 4.  

The latter said he saw an improvement in confidence in the Astrazeneca vaccine. 

Vaccination continues to accelerate in 🇫🇷:


4x more appointments taken in 2 weeks.


4 million adults at risk invited to be vaccinated.


Tens of thousands of doctors, pharmacists, nurses ready to vaccinate you with AstraZeneca or Jansen if you are 55 and over.

pic.twitter.com/MmMBLwPhA5

- Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) May 4, 2021

Vaccination against Covid-19 has been extended since Saturday to all adults with risk factors for developing a severe form of the disease. 

According to the report communicated last week by the Directorate General of Health (DGS), more than 15 million people had received at least a first dose of vaccine in France and more than six million two doses. 

"Common sense"

Questioned on the radio during the day, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, also justified, in the name of "common sense", the opening to injections for all adults on simple declaration of a chronic disease, at the time where indicators of the Covid-19 epidemic are improving. "We made the choice of common sense", replied the Minister on Europe 1, questioned on the government's desire to open vaccination "to all", but without officially announcing it.

"I could have asked four million French people," 18-50 year olds obese or suffering from chronic diseases, "to go to their doctor, to traffic congestion in medical offices in the midst of an epidemic wave, to ask them for a certificate according to which would have a disease ", he developed, but" I trust the French ".

"There may be workaround strategies but it will be at the margin", assured Olivier Véran, adding that it was up to "the medical teams in the centers (...) to take stock with the people who come get vaccinated "and that the most vulnerable remained a priority.

The Ministry of Health specified that the appointment would be made "on declaration" of these comorbidities and that no medical prescription would be required.

With Reuters and AFP

The summary of the week

France 24 invites you to come back to the news that marked the week

I subscribe

Take international news everywhere with you!

Download the France 24 application

google-play-badge_FR