Today, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country will start providing the third dose of vaccines against Covid-19 to the elderly and frail next September.
In a video posted on social media, the agent hinted that each person would receive an extra dose, “but not immediately.” Currently, France is already recommending another injection for immunocompromised patients, which are people with weakened or compromised immune systems.
According to data from the Our World in Data portal, about 64% of the French population has been immunized, with 48.6% having already completed the course of vaccination and 15.3% starting doses.
The French decision follows similar positions from other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Israel and Germany. But it goes against the appeal made by the World Health Organization, which it repeated on Wednesday (4).
In an interview, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made a new request for rich countries to help the poorest countries get at least “10% of each country’s population by September”.
“We have an urgent need to change things: from moving the majority of vaccines to rich countries to moving the majority of vaccines to poor countries,” he added. Gebresus. According to the same WHO data, while about 50% of the population of European countries has been vaccinated, African countries have only 5% of citizens who have received a dose – 2% are fully vaccinated.
