In France, more than half of the population rejects …

On the first day of the coronavirus vaccination campaign which began this Sunday in Europe, the newspaper Sunday Newspaper has published a survey which guarantees that more than half of French citizens are “reluctant” to receive the vaccine.

According to the study carried out between the 11th and 14th of this month, 56% of French people voted against inoculation of the drug and The remaining 44 percent said they planned to receive it “at some point,” although of that percentage, only 13 said they were “sure” to do so.

The first doses of the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the American laboratory Pfizer and the German BioNTech arrived on French territory on Saturday, a day after health authorities reported a first case in the city of Tours of the new variant of covid -19 has emerged in the UK.

As in other countries of the European Union (EU), in France the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus began this Sunday. The first vaccinations were organized in two retirement homes: one in Dijon, in the east of the country, and another at the René-Muret hospital in Sevran, where Mauricette, 78, is the first person vaccinated in France.

“Reason and science must guide us. We have a new weapon against the virus: the vaccine. Let’s stay together; let’s be proud of our health system, ”said President Emmanuel Macron via Twitter.

Coronavirus in France

With more than 2.6 million cases, France is the fifth most infected country in the world due to the coronavirus and the first with the most positives in Europe.

In turn, it is the seventh country in the world and the second on the continent with the most deaths, with 62,694 deaths from the disease.