Thread by @Mij_Europe

The snail-like first 10 days of French vaccine roll-out means Fr is still behind other countries – only 1.44% of the 66mn population vaccinated as of last night. As of today, France would still not yet appear on this FT chart. BUT that will soon change 1/
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The French vaccine programme has exploded into life in the last four or five days, with an average of well over 100,000 jabs a day. As a result  France is now jabbing faster (pro rata) than Germany or Italy 2/

It has vaccinated a total of 963,139 people (139,572 yesterday alone) and will today hit – 8 days early - its initial, modest target of 1,000,000 by the end of January. This is only four days longer than the UK took to reach its “first million jabs.” 3/

If doses come through on time (and the Oxford vaccine should finally be authorised in the EU next week) the plan is to vaccinate another 3,000,000 next month & 20,000,000 by the end of April & the whole country (or at least the 56% who say they are willing) by end of August 4/

This is broadly in line with other countries (including the UK, allowing for the slower start in the EU/France) and more or less the original French timetable
ENDS

PS. This is the go to website for Fr/vaccines: covidtracker.fr/vaccintracker. The targets were articulated by Olivier Veran on Thursday. See @john_lichfield earlier very good threads on this too