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France Hits Goal of 10 Million Covid First Jabs a Week Early

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Visitors wait and register for inoculation at the Covid-19 vaccination center inside France's national velodrome in the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines district of Paris on March 24.Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg

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By Geraldine Amiel and Ania Nussbaum

April 8, 2021 at 1:59 PM UTC

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April 8, 2021 at 5:36 PM UTC

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France met its target of inoculating 10 million people with a first dose of anti-Covid vaccine on Thursday, a week ahead of schedule, as the country endures its third lockdown.

Some 316,327 people got their first injection in the last 24 hours, bringing that total to 10.1 million, or 15.1% of the entire population, the Health Ministry said in a statement. In addition, 121,534 people got their second jab, taking the number of fully vaccinated people to almost 3.5 million.