France to start Covid-19 vaccinations on Sunday

PARIS: France will start its

Covid-19 vaccination programme

next Sunday,

Health Minister Olivier Veran

wrote on his Twitter feed.

Veran added in his Tweet on Monday that the French vaccination programme would start off with the most vulnerable members of the population, such as the elderly.

Europe's medicines regulator will on Monday assess the

Covid-19

vaccine jointly developed by US company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech , with a green light to put Europe on course to start inoculations within a week.