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Will France be able to vaccinate 70% of adults by the end of August?

2021-01-21T17:55:27.939Z


VERIFICATION - This is the goal that European member states should achieve, according to the European Commission, which has asked them to "speed up" vaccinations.


THE QUESTION

.

The member states of the European Union, which have united to buy together 2.5 billion doses of seven different vaccines against Covid (if they are validated by the European Medicines Agency), did not start first on the starting line of vaccinations, overtaken by the United Kingdom, the United States or Israel which began to vaccinate earlier and faster.

Read also: Covid vaccine: are we protected after the first injection?

On Tuesday, the European Commission called on the 27 countries to "

accelerate

" the pace of vaccinations, setting two goals: vaccinate 70% of adults by the end of August and 80% of health professionals and those over 80 years old. March.

While uncertainties weigh on the number of doses that will be available in the coming months, the Vice-President of the Commission, Margaritis Schinas, was confident, declaring that "

at the end of the first quarter, Europe will have an impressive amount of doses that can be deployed across the EU

”.

Does France have a chance to achieve this?

The question is really threefold.

First, given the orders placed, how many doses will France have by the end of August?

Then,

what

about the logistics: will the vaccination campaign make it possible, in practice, to keep up?

Finally, there is the question of "

demand

": do enough French people want to be vaccinated?

CHECKS

.

People over 18 in France, representing some 52 million people, vaccinate 70% of

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Source: lefigaro

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