{"id":518001,"date":"2021-11-25T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518001"},"modified":"2021-11-25T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T00:19:10","slug":"france-opts-for-3rd-shots-not-lockdown-to-fight-new-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518001","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE &#8211; opts for 3rd shots, not lockdown, to fight new wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>France has launched a plan to give booster shots to all adults, opting against a further lockdown or curfew, to help combat a worrying uptick in infections in the country<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"_ap_link_vaccines_Vaccinations_\">&#8220;French Health Minister Olivier Veran laid out the plans during a press conference in which he announced a reduction in the time gap between second and third shots from six to five months. He said France already has enough <a id=\"_ap_link_vaccines_Vaccinations_\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Vaccinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaccines<\/a>\u00a0to launch the nationwide booster campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Veran also laid out a swathe of measures seen as tightening the use of masks in public areas and said that the country&#8217;s COVID pass, which is required in many indoor places across the country, will become invalid if a person has not received a booster shot within seven months of a second dose.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there are ten times more unvaccinated people currently hospitalized because of the virus than vaccinated ones, adding that without the vaccine the country would already be in a lockdown situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/france-opts-3rd-shots-lockdown-fight-wave-81392600\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/france-opts-3rd-shots-lockdown-fight-wave-81392600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has launched a plan to give booster shots to all adults, opting against a further lockdown or curfew, to help combat a worrying uptick in infections in the country &#8220;French Health Minister Olivier Veran laid out the plans during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}