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Weekly French vaccination thread.Another record week: 600,000 shots on each of the last 2 days and over 3,000,000 in 7 days.France might make its target of 20m 1st jabs by

Weekly French vaccination thread.It has been a good week – the best yet.France broke its record on each of the last 2 days – 545,000 shots on Thurs and 549,000

Weekly French Covid threadAll stats in the last week moved in the right direction, some more than others. That’s the 1st time that has happened for 2 months. Daily average

Weekly French vaccination thread.The French roll-out, still described as “stuttering” or “glacial” in UK media (and even some Fr media) continues to boom. Over 500,000 doses (1st/ 2nd) were given

President Emmanuel Macron will announce on TV at 8pm (Fr time) tonight whether France is going into a new Covid lockdown. Drastic action of some kind is certain after alarming

The latest Covid figures in France are worrying – not only the jump to over 40,000 cases in one day yesterday but a sharp increase in deaths over the last

It’s not difficult to catch the present British government in a lie. Here is one to add to the list. It concerns one of my pet subjects – fisheries. Anyone

Time for another French Covid update. Individual days are misleading so I have crunched stats for 7 days. The trend is mildly encouraging. All numbers are up – cases, deaths,

Here is another French Covid update. There have been 6 days since my last thread. The trend remains steadily upwards in cases, deaths and net admissions to intensive care. But

Here is a new French Covid numbers crunch…With 7,379 new cases confirmed in the 24hrs to 2pm yesterday, the official daily count of Covid-19 in France has almost doubled in

Here is an extended French Covid update and number crunch...The daily figures for new Covid cases in France yesterday were dreadful – 4,771, which is the highest in 24 hours

I stopped tweeting the daily Covid stats in France a week or so ago. Since then various people, including President Emmanuel Macron, have reported a slight resurgence of the epidemic.