France's 64-year-old ambassador to the UK was also immunized using the AstraZeneca vaccine today, inadvertently undermining her own government's message by tweeting: 'Done. It marks the third change to France's vaccine policies in quick succession amid a chaotic roll-out lagging way behind Britain's in the global league table. On February 2, France approved the AstraZeneca vaccine but only for under-65s, amid concerns about limited data on older people in clinical trials. Real-world data from England and Scotland subsequently showed that the AstraZeneca jab was highly effective at stopping severe illness in older people. In France, out of 1.4 million AstraZeneca doses administered, cases were seen in a 51-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, she said.

Source: The Nation March 19, 2021 15:28 UTC