Overview
- As of December 27, the Agriculture Ministry reports 50.7% of the herd across ten departments—361,079 animals—has been vaccinated.
- Minister Annie Genevard announced the progress following the mid-December acceleration aimed at roughly 750,000 bovines.
- EU rules deem a zone vaccinated only when 95% of holdings representing 75% of animals are covered, so further doses are required before controls can ease.
- Most barricades were lifted in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, but some farmers kept road blockades in Occitanie to protest the government's handling of the disease.
- The state strategy continues to rely on culling infected herds, vaccination, and movement restrictions for a disease that is not transmissible to humans.