Coronavirus: France begins a massive campaign of …

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, assured this Tuesday that mass vaccination in the country will start between April and June 2021, after a “first campaign intended for most vulnerable and exposed groups“which will take place in the first months of the year.

On Monday, the country’s High Authority for Health (HAS) recommended prioritizing in the first stages of vaccination the 75,000 people living in nursing homes and employees of these establishments (90,000 to 100,000) “which present a serious risk (over 65 years or with comorbidity)”.

Then, said the president of the health authority, Dominique Le Guludec, the adult adults already “healthcare professionals, medico-social and health transport, with priority to those over 50 “.

Then “everyone over 50 years of age or younger but at serious risk of comorbidity“, As well as the rest of the professionals of the health sector and” professionals of the sectors essential to the functioning of the country “.

According to HAS estimates, the “professionals whose work environment favors infection (regular public contacts or closed media) “already at”vulnerable people or precarious with a less favorable prognosis in the event of infection with covid-19 (without fixed address, prisoners and others) ”. The last to be vaccinated will be “those over 18 without comorbidity.

Vaccinations

This week the European Medicines Agency (EMA) enthusiastically welcomed the requests for authorization of pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, who plan to sell their vaccines on the continent in the early months of 2021. The petition to the European regulator came after the companies sought approval in the United States.

As the EMA announced on Tuesday, clearances could be ready on December 29, in the case of Pfizer / BioNTec, and January 12, in the case of Moderna. Once it has been approved by the EMA, the European Commission (EC) will be responsible for making the final decision to launch it on the European market.

“It will probably be a matter of days,” said a spokesperson for the Community Executive on Tuesday, who estimated that with the forecast vaccination campaigns could be launched in early 2021.