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COVID-19: France Hits Target Of 10m Jabs

  France has given a first jab of a vaccine against Covid-19 to 10 million people, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday amid an … Continue reading COVID-19: France Hits Target Of 10m Jabs


(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 15, 2021 vials of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for Covid-19, stored at -70 ° in a super freezer of the hospital of Le Mans, northwestern France as the country carry on a vaccination campaign to fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. – Pfizer said March 25, 2021 it had begun clinical trials for its Covid vaccine in children under the age of eleven, an early sign of the next stage of the global immunization campaign. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 15, 2021 vials of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for Covid-19, stored at -70 ° in a super freezer of the hospital of Le Mans, northwestern France as the country carry on a vaccination campaign to fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)

 

France has given a first jab of a vaccine against Covid-19 to 10 million people, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday amid an acceleration in the rollout after a sluggish start.

“It’s a very good performance. France is vaccinating a lot,” Castex said after visiting an inoculation centre east of Paris, hailing the figure of 10 million first jabs one week ahead of a government target.

France fell behind its European neighbours after the start of vaccinations in January, but is now jabbing on average around 200,000-300,000 people per day.

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EU members have faced a shortage of doses which has been blamed on a centralised purchasing and distribution system.

File photo: French President Emmanuel Macron gives an interview at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 23, 2021 to the show “C Dans l’Air” on the French tv channel France 5 ahead of the broadcast of a documentary on France’s diplomatic relations with Turkey. France 5 / AFP

 

French President Emmanuel Macron has compared European efforts to a “diesel engine”.

“It starts slowly but it goes far,” he told Greece’s ERT channel last month.

The government has forecast 20 million first time jabs by mid-May and 30 million by mid-June.

AFP