Health Minister François Braun called on Tuesday to “accelerate” vaccination against Covid-19 and influenza, in particular for the elderly and frail, since the latest campaigns so far “have not achieved” their objectives.
“You are fragile, you are over sixty, you have to get vaccinated against the flu, you have to get vaccinated against Covid”, declared the Minister of Health visiting the Ehpad Albert du Bosquiel, in Bondues, in the North, on the day of the opening flu vaccination to everyone, after a phase reserved for priority audiences. “We can get vaccinated for both at the same time. It is to protect ourselves, and for caregivers it is to protect the most fragile,” the minister insisted, stressing that “the risk of Covid-19 is far from ruled out.”
100 deaths from Covid on Monday in France
A “slowdown” of the epidemic has been observed “for about three weeks with 260 cases per 100,000 inhabitants” but, “however, there are still deaths, yesterday there were one hundred deaths in France,” he said and lamented. “We can no longer accept that people die from Covid because we were negligent or because they didn’t get vaccinated,” he said. “We are clearly below the targets as of today”: “only around 10-15% of the target people are vaccinated” against Covid-19, he lamented.
As for the flu, the numbers are also “lower than we expect,” he said. “The WHO recommendations are that 75% of the target population” be vaccinated, but in France “for several years we have been below it”, however, “we also die of the flu, every year.” The “double vaccination” against the two diseases “allows us to have a better rate. This year we have 190,000 people who have had both at the same time,” observed François Braun.
Source: BFM TV
