In France, 20 million inhabitants, almost a third of the population, have received their first vaccination against corona. President Macron announced this on Twitter.
In the coming weeks, we will go into top gear. Half of the population (30 million people) must have had the first injection by mid-June. The government’s goal is to have everyone vaccinated by the end of the summer.
France is catching up after the slow start of the vaccination campaign in January. Officially, anyone aged 50 and older can now get vaccinated. But residents of 18 years and older have also been allowed to register since the beginning of this month: they are eligible as soon as there are vaccines left or if people over 50 do not show up.
That led to a stampede at the vaccination centers. French youngsters seem to want to be vaccinated en masse and they are looking hard for free places. “It is Mission Impossible, but without Tom Cruise ”, summarized The world it together.
The ‘disadvantage’ of opening up the vaccination centers for young people is that by no means all older people have been vaccinated. “A quarter of all people over 75 have not yet had a vaccine,” Prime Minister Jean Castex said today. “The priority for the next days and weeks must be to find and vaccinate these people.”
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