France expands vaccination campaign to 75 and older, anyone deemed high-risk
People aged 75 and over will be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in France starting Monday.
Up until now, only residents of nursing homes and medical staff aged 50 and over were able to be vaccinated against the disease.
France is also expanding its vaccination campaign to include anyone with high-risk conditions, such as cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or transplant patients.
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The move comes after the country's death toll from COVID-19 topped 70,000 over the weekend.
France has confirmed more than 2.9 million cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, including at least 70,283 deaths, according to the latest data from the country's public health agency. The Western European nation has the sixth-highest tally of diagnosed cases in the world, after the United States, India, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
So far, the European Medicines Agency has approved two COVID-19 vaccines for use in the European Union -- one developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, and another developed by American biotechnology company Moderna.
ABC News' Ibtissem Guenfoud contributed to this report.