How is France preparing to mass-vaccinate the population? This Saturday January 9, 2021 professor and president of the Haute Autorité de Santé Dominique Le Guludec said in France “[vaccine] orders have picked up the pace” over the past days. She confirms the French government was ordering more vaccines and “industrials are making major efforts to deliver more and quicker” she told Europe 1.
2ème vaccin validé en France #Covid_19, 80.000 vaccinés cette semaine : Quelle stratégie pour accélérer cette vaccination ? La présidente la Haute Autorité de Santé @HAS_sante , le Professeur Dominique Le Guludec est mon invitée à 12h45 @Europe1 pic.twitter.com/v1Tw9fxBnH
— Fabienne Le Moal (@FabienneLeMoal) January 9, 2021
Tweet reads: “2nd vaccine approved in Frace #Covid_19, 80,000 people vaccinated this week: what strategy to speed the vaccination up? Haute Autorité de Santé president and professor Dominique Le Guludec is my guest from 12:45 p.m. on Europe1”
A few days earlier, Moderna vaccine was given the green light from the same authority to be issued in France. Lately, the government has been faced with many criticisms from the opposition on the vaccine strategy implemented in France. In Europe, countries such as Germany and the United-Kingdom are speeding up and already total several thousands and even hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens vaccinated.
🔴 @olivierveran indique que plus de 80 000 personnes ont été vaccinées contre la #Covid19 depuis le début de la campagne vaccinale https://t.co/aUNdntMuM1 pic.twitter.com/RmBzUOEZWk
— GRZ - CovidTracker (@GuillaumeRozier) January 8, 2021
Tweet reads: “[Olivier Véran] says over 80,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid19 since the vaccine campaign started”.
In France, this toll is barely increasing (80,000 people as of January 8, 2021) as the Covidtracker.fr website shows. Furthermore, the number of people vaccinated is expected to increase in the coming days. Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed “the goal is to move quicker” without forgetting that it should be made so “in absolutely irreproachable safety conditions”.
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