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France begins COVID-19 vaccination drive, 78-year-old receives first dose

The French government has planned a gradual roll-out plan to invite citizens, on a voluntary basis and free of charge, to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. To date, France has reported 2,616,510 confirmed coronavirus cases and 62,867 deaths.

Edited by: India TV News Desk New Delhi Published : Dec 28, 2020 10:51 IST, Updated : Dec 28, 2020 10:51 IST
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Mauricette, a French 78-year-old woman, is the first to get vaccinated for COVID-19 at the Rene-Muret hospital in Servan near Paris, Sunday Dec. 27, 2020. 

France has begun a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus pandemic after a 78-year-old woman received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the country. According to the details, the woman was a former housekeeper and now a resident of the long-term care unit of a hospital in north Paris. 

"'Ca va' (I am fine). Perfect," the women said on Sunday after receiving the vaccine at a hospital in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis department.

Minutes after the vaccination campaign started, President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: "We have a new weapon against the virus: the vaccine. The vaccine will not be compulsory. Let us have confidence in our researchers and doctors. We are the land of the Enlightenment and the Pastor, reason and science must guide us."

The President had tested positive for the virus on December 17 and has since recovered.

Only 40 per cent of French people have said that "they certainly or probably want to be vaccinated", according to the weekly epidemiological update of Public Health France published last week.

The French government has planned a gradual roll-out plan to invite citizens, on a voluntary basis and free of charge, to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

The authorities are aiming to have 1 million people, among the oldest and most vulnerable, vaccinated by the end of February in the country's 7,000 nursing homes and related facilities.

To date, France has reported 2,616,510 confirmed coronavirus cases and 62,867 deaths.

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