Paris (AFP)
A million people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in France thanks to "go to" devices where vaccination is offered to them as close as possible to their homes, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday.
"We have just crossed the million French people vaccinated via our + going to +" operations, with "the work we are doing with associations and local communities to find people who cannot, for various reasons, find their way. move until vaccination, "he explained to the RTL / Le Figaro / LCI Grand Jury.
"It is a million people who probably would not have been vaccinated if we had not been looking for them at the foot of their building, via associations which are used to accompanying them", added the spokesperson. of the government.
In total "we are tending towards 50 million French people having received a first dose", he congratulated himself, assuring that "yes, we will reach 50 million in a few days" but "I cannot tell you how date exactly ".
Prime Minister Jean Castex called on August 20 "not to give up any leverage to encourage vaccination".
Asked about the issue of compulsory vaccination, he said "it can come at a time", stressing that the Head of State had mentioned this possibility in his speech of July 12.
"If we had approached this vaccination campaign by saying that the vaccine was compulsory, I am not sure that we would be at the result today", he nevertheless argued.
Finally on the health pass, Mr. Attal assured that "if we could not have a health pass, we would not have a health pass", and that "in an ideal world, there would be none, but there would be no virus either ".
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