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Added on the 03/01/2021 15:13:53 - Copyright : AFP EN
Israel said Sunday two million people will have received a two-dose Covid-19 vaccination by the end of January, a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts is the world's fastest. Starting on December 19, when Netanyahu got his first jab, Israel launched an aggressive push to administer the vaccine made by US-German pharma alliance Pfizer-BioNTech.
French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal predicts that "one million more people" will receive at least one Covid-19 vaccine jab in the country in February, adding to January's 1.4 million to make a total of "2.5 million at the end of February." SOUNDBITE
"We hope to have vaccinated more than one million French people by the end of January,' French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Tuesday. The French health ministry reported 3,582 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, a figure lower than Sunday's 15,944.
At a press conference on the vaccination strategy to stem the Covid-19 epidemic in France, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that residents and some staff of retirement homes, "about a million people" will be vaccinated as a priority during the month of January.
African migrants in Israel began implementing a plan to force tens of thousands of African migrants out of the country by April, threatening to arrest those who stay.
Quatre patients atteints du Covid-19, hospitalisés en réanimation sur l'île de la Réunion, sont évacués vers un aéroport de la région parisienne par vol sanitaire. Une opération sans précédent par la durée du vol, 11 heures, et le nombre de malades transportés.