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Faced with the increase in the number of positive cases for Covid-19 in France, the government is considering new measures and is asking the question of the extension of a third dose of vaccine. Emmanuel Macron will speak on Tuesday, November 9, while the Prime Minister recalled that the epidemic was not over.
The spokesperson for the government in a Parisian pharmacy, the Prime Minister at the Montpellier hospital (Hérault). A government mobilization around a message: “general mobilization around vaccination“Said Jean Castex on Friday, November 5. At the origin of the concern, the resumption of the epidemic, with more than 6,200 cases on average over seven days at the beginning of November, against 4,653 at the beginning of October. Faced with the return of the epidemic. virus, too many unvaccinated French people and too few third doses Of 7.7 million people eligible for a booster, only 3.3 million received it.
However, this additional injection has proven its effectiveness in the field. “One is roughly twenty times less likely to be infected after a third dose, according to data from Israel, which is very encouraging“, estimates Stéphane Paul immunologist at the CHU of Saint-Etienne (Loire). Should we go further and generalize this third dose? This is in any case the path taken in Germany, which is facing an outbreak of these cases In France, if the obligation of a reminder is not currently relevant, the government is considering imposing it to keep its health pass.
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