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epa08996288 French Health Minister Olivier Veran speaks to people waiting to be vaccinated or with the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine or with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the South Ile-de-France Hospital Group (Groupe Hospitalier Sud Ile-de-France), in Melun, on the outskirts of Paris, 08 February 2021. The top French medical authority (Haute autorite de Sante) has approved the vaccine AstraZeneca-Oxford for use in France, but only for people under 65, echoing decisions made in Sweden, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland over concerns about a lack of data on the effectiveness of the vaccine for over 65s. EPA/THOMAS SAMSON / POOL MAXPPP OUT