AA/Paris/Fatih KARAKAYA
The French High Authority for Health (HAS) recommended, on Wednesday, a booster anti-Covid vaccine in the fall for people at risk of developing serious forms.
In a public notice, the HAS establishes scenarios on the circulation of the virus and calls, at the same time, to continue “vaccination and booster efforts among people aged 65 and over, as well as immunocompromised people and their entourage”.
Recognizing that “the current data seem to show that the epidemic is stabilizing in France”, the HAS nevertheless warns by estimating “that it is highly probable that the circulation of the virus will re-intensify periodically”.
In order to limit “the impact of a future wave in particular on the most fragile, it is essential to build now a vaccine strategy ready to be deployed in the months to come”, warns the authority.
-Less and less serious cases
The HAS judges that “the incidence and the number of serious cases are decoupled and that this would lead to less and less serious epidemic waves”. However, she does not rule out “periodic transmission peaks might occur due to the increase in the proportion of people with lowered immunity”.
As a result, the HAS specifies that it will be “necessary to periodically administer a booster dose of vaccination for those most at risk of a severe form”.
Nevertheless, HAS reserves the right to change things depending on the appearance of new variants and the marketing of new vaccines.
France recorded around 32,000 cases on Tuesday, an average of 22,579 daily cases over seven days, according to the results of Public Health France.
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