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FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “UK vaccine rollout: Health workers begin administering Covid-19 jabs” – below is their description.
British health minister Matt Hancock said he expected millions of people in the country to receive a #vaccine against #Covid-19 by Christmas. #Britain was the first country globally to begin mass inoculations on Tuesday with a shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. FRANCE 24’s Bénédicte Paviot tells us more.
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Bénédicte Paviot is an Anglo-French television news reporter, and the UK correspondent of France 24. She lives in London and is currently president of the Foreign Press Association.
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France is a republic and the largest Western European nation. Through expansion and colonisation in the 17th and 18th centuries France became a great power and still retains territories around the world. It has a seat on the UN security council and is the world’s fourth most wealthy country with a high standard of living and strong cultural identity.
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