The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, assured Tuesday evening that France will be able to offer a vaccine to "
all French adults who wish
", "
by the end of the summer
".
He also estimated that, "at the
beginning of March
", the 80% of nursing home residents who so wish, or 500,000 people, will have been vaccinated.
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From February, four sites in France will produce the vaccine, also announced the head of state, interviewed in the 20 hours newspaper of TF1.
Emmanuel Macron, however, recognized that "
it is not our vaccination strategy that will in the short term prevent the virus from circulating at high speed
" on the territory, while France has been at a high plateau for several weeks. , registering 20,000 to 25,000 new cases per day.
“
We will secure 2.3 billion vaccines in Europe.
We hope to do even more,
”he said, stressing the importance of
“ adapting vaccines ”
and
“ anticipating vaccine boosts ”in the
face of the variants that are swarming all over the world.
