VACCINATION COVID. While the Vaccination Pass came into effect this week, where is the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in France? If the percentage of fully vaccinated French people remains close to 80%, the number of booster doses is struggling to pass the 40 million mark…
According to the latest official data on the vaccination in France, available on January 28, 275,226 doses of Covid vaccine were administered on Wednesday, including 210,366 booster doses. To date, since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 53.9 million French people have received at least one dose of vaccine and 52.6 million benefit from a complete vaccination schedule. The percentage of the population completely vaccinated thus amounts to 78.42%. But the number of third doses is 34.6 million and has been progressing more slowly since the beginning of January.
While the Vaccine Pass, which targets the 9% unvaccinated, entered into force on Monday, the number of first doses is still struggling to take off. Above all, it is the young and the active who mainly seem to have taken the plunge, while vaccination in the oldest age groups (and therefore those most at risk) is only progressing very slowly.
For the past year, the executive has made vaccination against Covid the priority health issue in the fight against the epidemic. France has managed to achieve a high level of vaccination in a few months and one of the highest vaccination coverages in Europe and the world. However, this may not be enough to completely eradicate the disease, but it protects against serious forms, offers protection to the most fragile and makes it possible to desaturate hospital services.
The progress of vaccination is closely monitored by the health authorities, because it is considered 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 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 vaccinated persons (replacing the place of vaccination). The data history has been taken over 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 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 vaccinated persons (replacing the place of vaccination). The data history has been taken over according to this method of calculation.
The vaccination campaign is seen by experts and health authorities as the best way to end the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19especially since the variants that multiply make the virus more contagious.