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		</div><p>Under fire for a glacially slow rollout of coronavirus vaccine shots, France’s government pledged on Thursday to pick up the pace with quicker inoculation to a broader array of health care workers starting next week.</p>
<p>President Emmanuel Macron also intervened in what was becoming an increasingly sharp debate about the slow start of vaccinations against the virus in his country.</p>
<p>Mr Macron used his traditional New Year’s address to the nation to promise that he will personally ensure there is no unnecessary heel-dragging.</p>
<p>The French leader said he would not allow “an unjustified slowness, for bad reasons, to take root”.</p>
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<p lang="fr" dir="ltr">Certains d&#39;entre vous questionnent le rythme de la vaccination <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> en France, quelques jours après le lancement européen. Certains pays ont déjà beaucoup vacciné, d&#39;autres, comme la Belgique ou les Pays-Bas, n&#39;ont pas encore démarré. (1/12) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccincovid?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vaccincovid</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) <a href="https://twitter.com/olivierveran/status/1344688776690470914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Before Mr Macron spoke, his health minister tweeted that shots would be offered from Monday to health care workers aged 50 and older.</p>
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<p>Only a few hundred people received vaccines against Covid-19 in the days after a 78-year-old in a long-term care facility got the first shot on Sunday.</p>
<p>Consent requirements have slowed the process, with officials also treading cautiously because of widespread scepticism in France around the safety of the rapidly developed vaccines.</p>
<p>But critics increasingly are accusing health officials of being overly cautious.</p>
<p>The National Academy of Medicine said the slow start “is difficult to defend”.</p>
<p>France has reported the virus-related deaths of more than 64,000 people since the start of the pandemic.</p>
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