Clement Perruche
The Head of State announced on his Twitter account that he had received his booster dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 at the same time as that against the seasonal flu. Health authorities are beating the recall of the vaccination as the threat of the Omicron variant hangs over Europe.
This Monday morning, Emmanuel Macron said on his Twitter account that he had received his booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. The head of state also received his seasonal flu vaccine. According to franceinfo, Brigitte Macron also received the double injection of anti-covid and anti-seasonal flu vaccine.
Vaccination booster ✅
Flu shot ✅— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 29, 2021
Rush on recalls
Since the beginning of September, the vaccination booster campaign was open to people over 65 years old. Since Saturday, the Covid-19 vaccine booster campaign has been open to all adults who received their last dose more than five months ago. According to the Vaccin Tracker site, 75.6% of French people have a complete vaccination schedule and 9.3% have already received a booster dose. Since the government announcements at the end of the health defense council, reservations on the Doctolib site for the injection of the booster dose exploded. 10 million people may have received their booster dose by the end of the month.
This third dose campaign begins as the threat of the Omicron variant hangs over Europe. The new virus mutation is of concern to the scientific community because “the surface protein, the Spike which is responsible both for the contagiousness of the virus and for escaping the immune response, shows a very high number of changes compared to the forms that we knew “, explained the virologist Vincent Maréchal on Europe 1 this weekend. Cases of the Omicron variant have already been detected in Belgium, the United Kingdom and Germany. On Sunday November 28, eight “possible” cases of the Omicron variant were spotted in France. Only sequencing of the virus – an operation that takes a few days – confirms that it is indeed the variant from South Africa.
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