A top French health official on Monday urged millions of people to get a second booster shot against the coronavirus as the country braces itself for another wave of the disease, reports RFI.
More than 155,000 people have died in France since the beginning of the pandemic, officially declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020.
More than two and a half years on, the circulation of the Covid-19 virus has again intensified in France during what is described as an eighth wave.
Around 8,000 new cases have been reported in the past week, according to the Santé Publique France agency, with over 4,000 new hospital admissions, over 300 of those in intensive care.
The government is again putting the emphasis on vaccination as key to protecting the most vulnerable members of the society.