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| Date | 27 December 2020 – present |
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| Location | France |
| Cause | COVID-19 pandemic in France |
| Target | Full immunisation of people in France against COVID-19 |
| Participants | 53,895,155 people have received at least one vaccine dose 52,581,073 people have been fully vaccinated |
| Outcome | 80.3% of the French population have received at least one vaccine dose 78.3% of the French population have been fully vaccinated |
| Website | solidarites-sante |
COVID-19 vaccination in France started on 27 December 2020 after the approval of Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the European Union commission.
According to a June 2022 study published in The Lancet, COVID-19 vaccination in France prevented an additional 631,000 deaths from December 8, 2020, to December 8, 2021.[1][2]
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