COVID VACCINATION. The vaccination campaign in France has been in a very clear hollow since the end of the year celebrations. Less than half of those vaccinated have received their booster dose, while the government will step up incentives and restrictions to boost the booster …
While the government will reduce the time to receive a booster dose and keep its health pass to four months from February 15 and the bill on the vaccine pass rages in the Assembly, the campaign to vaccination in France patina. As a result of the end-of-year celebrations, the number of daily injections has dropped drastically after the peaks reached in mid-December. According to the latest official data on vaccination in France, 76,208 doses of Covid vaccine were administered on January 2, 2022, including 65,091 booster doses. To date, since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 52.9 million French people have received at least one dose of vaccine and 51.8 million have benefited from a complete vaccination schedule. The percentage of the population completely vaccinated thus amounts to 77.20% of the population. The number of third doses is 24.4 million.
For nearly a year, the government has made vaccination the priority health issue in the fight against the epidemic of coronavirus. France has managed to achieve a high level of vaccination in a few months and to achieve vaccination coverage among the highest in Europe and the world. However, this may not be enough to achieve total collective immunity, but it protects serious forms, offers protection to the most fragile and allows to desaturate hospital services.
The evolution of vaccination is closely followed by the health authorities, because it is considered as the only real bulwark to avoid a new epidemic outbreak. Here are the figures from the Ministry of Health on the doses of vaccine administered and the number of people vaccinated in France (vaccination coverage calculated on the total population):
PRECISION : The vaccination coverage is calculated here on the total population, which explains the differences observed with other statistics published elsewhere and which calculate the vaccination coverage on the population aged 12 years and over (that of people who can be vaccinated to date).
PRECISION : Since December 8, the vaccination indicators published by Public Health France and relayed in this article are expressed by place of residence of the vaccinated people (replacing the place of vaccination). The data history was taken according to this method of calculation.
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In the various departmental statistics mentioned below, the vaccination coverage is calculated on the total population, which explains the differences observed with other statistics published elsewhere and which calculate the vaccination coverage on the population aged 12 years and over ( that of people who can be vaccinated to date).
PRECISION : As of December 8, the vaccination indicators published by Public Health France and relayed in this article are expressed by place of residence of the vaccinated people (replacing the place of vaccination). The data history was taken according to this method of calculation.
The vaccination campaign is considered by experts and health authorities as the best way to put an end to the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic, especially as the variants which multiply make the virus more contagious.