French health regulator advises Reuters to carry out mandatory COVID-19 shootings

PARIS (Reuters) – A French health regulator said on Friday it recommended that coronavirus vaccines be mandatory without delay for all health workers and other professionals who come into contact with people suffering from COVID-19 infections.

The HAS regulator has also recommended taking mRNA as a basis Pfizer (NYSE 🙂 or Modern (NASDAQ 🙂 vaccines to slow the spread of the Delta variant because they offer more protection than other shots.

“Although the number of new cases and the pressure on the hospital system remain relatively low, the dynamics of the epidemic in France are significant and could lead to a worsening of the health situation,” the HAS said in a statement.

The regulator’s recommendations reached President Emmanuel Macron about the progress of the epidemic to the nation and the inevitable wave of what many of his government’s scientists say is due to the inevitable fourth wave 72 hours earlier.

The more contagious Delta variant has led to a sharp rise in the infection rate this month. The regulator said the government should start thinking about the mandatory vaccination of the entire population if it is to be ready to make that decision.

He also recommended shortening the period between first and second vaccines and recommended that people over the age of 55 who receive a first shot with the AstraZeneca (NASDAQ 🙂 vaccine receive a second dose of the mRNA-based vaccine.

After dropping from more than 42,000 a day in mid-April to less than 2,000 a day in late June, the average seven-day infection has risen rapidly again since early July.

On Friday, the Ministry of Health registered 4,580 new infections. Over the past six days, the average seven-day number of new infections has increased by more than 50% daily, at a rate similar to the early stages of the first wave of the epidemic.