France: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 90,583

France: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 90,583

COVID-19 Pandemic: France faces challenge to persuade millions of vaccine sceptics to take the "jab."

Sky News shows that there is evidence in France that millions of people are reluctant to have a jab.

In this France news, the most recent polls suggest around half of the adult population may refuse a vaccination - leading health professionals to worry about public safety long term.

Vaccine skepticism is high in many European countries and in France where so-called "anti-vax" websites and platforms have drawn thousands of followers.

France is officially the French Republic. This is a country primarily located in Western Europe, consisting of metropolitan France and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco and Italy to the east, Andorra and Spain to the south, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname and Brazil in the Americas. The country's 18 integral regions (5 of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 km squared. France has a total population of about 67.4 million.

France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial center. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones of any country, with a total of 12.

During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls. The area was annexed by Rome in 51 BC, developing a distinct Gallo-Roman culture that laid the foundation of the French language.

Time in France sure has many time zones. Paris is in the Central European Time Zone . Central European Standard Time (CET ) is 1 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT+1 ).

France is divided into 18 administrative regions, of which 13 are located in metropolitan France (i.e. on the European continent), while the other 5 are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).

The 13 regions of Metropolitan France (as from January 2016):

Name - Capital:

Grand Est - Strasbourg

Nouvelle-Aquitaine - Bordeaux

Auvergne Rhône-Alpes - Lyon

Bretagne - Rennes

Bourgogne Franche-Comté - Dijon

Centre Val de Loire - Orléans

Corse - Ajaccio

Occitaine - Toulouse

Normandie - Rouen

Hauts-de-France - Lille

Île-de-France - Paris

Pays de la Loire - Nantes

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Nice

List Recent of Presidents of France:

Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

Georges Pompidou (1911 - 1974)

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926)

François Mitterrand (1916 - 1996)

Jacques Chirac (1932 - 2019)

Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955)

François Hollande (born 1954)

Emmanuel Macron (born 1977)

The following information is according to the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

Total Global Deaths from Covid-19: 2,653,182

Countries with most Global Cases of Covid-19:

29,436,516 USA

11,483,370 Brazil

11,359,048 India

4,341,381 Russia

4,271,710 United Kingdom

4,131,874 France

3,223,142 Italy

3,183,704 Spain

2,879,390 Turkey

2,578,842 Germany

2,303,144 Colombia

2,195,722 Argentina

2,163,875 Mexico

1,906,632 Poland

1,746,953 Iran

1,529,420 South Africa

1,509,983 Ukraine

1,419,455 Indonesia

1,407,963 Peru

1,399,078 Czechia

1,172,916 Netherlands

914,595 Canada

891,110 Chile

859,709 Romania

818,977 Israel

814,257 Portugal

805,321 Belgium

758,184 Iraq

712,527 Sweden

621,498 Philippines

605,200 Pakistan

570,645 Switzerland

557,395 Bangladesh

516,490 Hungary

516,277 Serbia

493,568 Austria

488,937 Morocco

477,053 Jordan

447,284 Japan

426,397 United Arab Emirates

418,448 Lebanon

382,407 Saudi Arabia

347,641 Panama

337,503 Slovakia

323,763 Malaysia

302,323 Belarus

302,221 Ecuador

278,557 Bulgaria

275,231 Nepal

274,989 Georgia

273,521 Kazakhstan

259,004 Bolivia

251,045 Croatia

246,045 Dominican Republic

241,834 Tunisia

240,295 Azerbaijan

226,741 Ireland

221,151 Denmark

221,147 Greece

209,523 Kuwait

209,304 West Bank and Gaza

209,093 Costa Rica

205,385 Lithuania

204,463 Moldova

200,374 Slovenia

190,924 Egypt

182,679 Guatemala

180,014 Paraguay

178,385 Armenia

177,832 Honduras

175,467 Ethiopia

170,252 Qatar

160,657 Nigeria

146,867 Oman

145,379 Venezuela

144,993 Libya

142,160 Bosnia and Herzegovina

142,147 Burma

131,001 Bahrain

117,474 Albania

115,265 Algeria

113,236 Kenya

112,646 North Macedonia

101,373 China

95,635 Korea, South

93,781 Latvia

87,907 Sri Lanka

87,762 Ghana

86,850 Kyrgyzstan

84,807 Estonia

84,797 Zambia

83,693 Montenegro

80,567 Uzbekistan

80,440 Norway

76,070 Kosovo

71,691 Uruguay

66,869 Finland

64,516 Mozambique

62,086 El Salvador

61,472 Cuba

60,105 Singapore

57,503 Luxembourg

55,985 Afghanistan

41,200 Namibia

40,622 Cameroon

40,581 Uganda

39,651 Cyprus

37,653 Cote d'Ivoire

36,892 Senegal

36,484 Zimbabwe

34,098 Botswana

32,789 Malawi

30,873 Sudan

30,499 Jamaica

29,123 Australia

27,014 Congo (Kinshasa)

26,927 Thailand

26,535 Malta

21,572 Maldives

21,380 Angola

21,356 Madagascar

20,186 Rwanda

17,742 Guinea

17,438 Mauritania

17,237 Eswatini

16,660 Gabon

16,478 Syria

16,101 Cabo Verde

13,308 Tajikistan

12,632 Haiti

12,372 Burkina Faso

12,370 Belize

11,266 Andorra

10,530 Lesotho

9,429 South Sudan

9,329 Congo (Brazzaville)

9,190 Somalia

9,160 Guyana

9,024 Suriname

8,913 Mali

8,658 Bahamas

8,070 Togo

7,783 Trinidad and Tobago

6,562 Equatorial Guinea

6,537 Nicaragua

6,501 Benin

6,268 Djibouti

6,072 Iceland

5,023 Central African Republic

4,985 Gambia

4,860 Niger

4,309 Chad

4,126 San Marino

4,031 Saint Lucia

3,961 Mongolia

3,937 Sierra Leone

3,635 Comoros

3,447 Guinea-Bissau

3,421 Barbados

3,315 Seychelles

3,038 Eritrea

2,836 Yemen

2,612 Liechtenstein

2,554 Vietnam

2,461 Burundi

2,423 New Zealand

2,107 Monaco

2,078 Sao Tome and Principe

2,030 Liberia

1,819 Papua New Guinea

1,680 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1,305 Cambodia