Professor Defraissy’s comments come almost a month after
he said that he could “see light at the end of the tunnel” for 2021, and that the “first data” from the vaccine trials and development had made him “optimistic”.
He said: “Even if the vaccine will not resolve everything and 2021 still will not be a normal year, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
France is set to roll out Covid-19 vaccines from January, starting with the most vulnerable in society and then gradually moving to the entire population, possibly by spring or summer.
Yet, France has reported high levels of reticence and distrust towards the vaccine among the public, with some polls finding that more than 50% of people in France would not have the vaccine when it becomes available.