Vaccination in france - activities

Covid in Paris: five major centers to vaccinate “30 to 40%” of the population “starting January”

Vaccination against Covid is underway in Paris! Anne Hidalgo announced during a meeting with arrondissement mayors she identified five potential sites that could house several centers for anti-coronavirus vaccination campaigns. The goal being to vaccinate 30 to 40% of the population in Paris – including prioritized people – starting January 2021, once the vaccine issued.

Covid: France “passed the peak of the epidemic” Olivier Véran said

Where is France in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic at? “We are gaining control of the epidemic, this is good news” and “there is every indication that we have passed the peak of the epidemic” France’s Health Minister Olivier Véran said in an interview released on November 16 in Le Dauphiné Libéré.

Coronavirus: Ose Immunotherapeutics vaccine delivers encouraging results

French laboratory Ose Immunotherapeutics has released encouraging results as for candidate vaccine against coronavirus, adding they will initiate the clinical phase in the first quarter of the year 2021.

Coronavirus: a vaccine for mid-2021 according to the head of Sanofi France

Olivier Bogillot, president of Sanofi France, told Francetvinfo that his vaccine would be put into circulation by mid-2021, if the results of phase 3 of its ongoing clinical trial are conclusive. A promise that the French pharmaceutical group had already formulated in June 2020, with the key to up to one billion doses per year.

Coronavirus: a vaccine to be put into circulation from September 2020?

A race for vaccine that is getting harsher to wipe out coronavirus! AstraZeneca has announced they were able to provide 300 million doses of their vaccine from September 2020. The vaccine is put into circulation very quickly given clinical trials in humans have not delivered their first outcomes.

Coronavirus: Anakinra, a promising treatment?

Is Anakinra an effective treatment against coronavirus? According to a French study released in The Lancet, the medicine usually prescribed for rheumatic diseases released encouraging results on severe Covid-19 forms. First results that will have to be confirmed on a greater number of patients.

Coronavirus: the research for a vaccine is speeding up

To fight against coronavirus, laboratories are working even harder to find a vaccine and this is what may have discovered scientists from the University Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Where’s the research is at today? Let’s have a look on breakthrough and other promising discoveries.

Coronavirus: update on the Discovery trial, Europe struggling to participate

Where is the Discovery trial at, this European clinical trial testing four experimental treatments against coronavirus? Let's have an update!

Coronavirus: a vaccine available in February or March 2021.

According to the Institut Pasteur, a vaccine against coronavirus could be available “in February or March 2021” in light of the progress of the research in France and in the world. Good news that sticks to the deadline given by the government for mid-2021.