Vaccination is shifting into "high gear".
France has passed the 4 million booster dose mark injected, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Friday, congratulating a new impetus since Emmanuel Macron announced, in a televisual address, that a dose a reminder would be necessary for over 65s to maintain the validity of their health pass from mid-December.
Faced with an epidemic which "resumes strongly and everywhere" in Europe, France is entering "a period of risk", warned Gabriel Attal on the move in a pharmacy in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine).
"The whole of the territory goes from green to orange and in places even to red", but "it is not inevitable that this fifth wave" takes away the hospital, assures the spokesperson of the government, who praised the merits of vaccination, described as a "very strong immune shield".
"The fifth wave will be that of the unvaccinated"
Since President Macron's speech, "620,000 appointments have been made on Doctolib, this is three times more than the previous week" and "there has been a record number of booster injections the day after the intervention of the President of the Republic ”, specified Gabriel Attal.
"We have exceeded 4 million injected booster doses", for an eligible audience of 7.7 million people, he added.
“Since Tuesday, the recall campaign has shifted two or three gears.
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Emmanuel Macron's speech of November 9, 2021
Started on September 1, the recall campaign targets first the most vulnerable groups (nursing home residents and other people over 65, people with comorbidities or very immunocompromised) who must receive an additional dose of vaccine, 6 months minimum after full vaccination.
“The fifth wave will be that of the unvaccinated and fragile people not recalled.
Each injection takes a patient away from the hospital and brings us collectively closer to a peaceful winter, ”Gabriel Attal insisted.
On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron again urged the some 6 million French people "who have not received any dose" to be vaccinated, in the name of "the spirit of responsibility".