Key Points

Vaccination of Pregnant Women: Encouraging Progress

In 2025, nearly 60% of women who gave birth in Corsica were vaccinated against pertussis. This vaccination coverage had been rising sharply since 2023 (+34 percentage points).
During the 2025–2026 RSV immunization campaign, 54% of eligible pregnant women in Corsica were vaccinated against RSV. This figure represented a significant increase compared to the 2024–2025 campaign (+20 percentage points), when this vaccination was first implemented. If the mother was not vaccinated against RSV during pregnancy, the infant can be protected from birth through an injection of monoclonal antibodies.

Vaccination of people aged 65 and older: low but rising flu vaccination coverage

In Corsica, influenza vaccination coverage among at-risk individuals increased by 3 percentage points compared to the previous season, after having remained stagnant for two seasons. It reached 49% among people aged 65 and older (+3 percentage points) and 21% among those under 65 at risk of developing severe forms of influenza (+3 percentage points) during the 2025–2026 season.

However, it was still 8 percentage points lower than the national rate for both at-risk groups and remained well below the 75% target set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

In the region, 18% of people aged 65 and older at high risk for pneumococcal infections were properly vaccinated against pneumococcal infections in 2025. Furthermore, only 1% of people aged 65 and older were vaccinated against shingles (2 doses) in 2025.

Vaccination Uptake

Vaccination uptake remained high but was still among the lowest in France: among seniors, 76% of those aged 65 to 79 said they were in favor of vaccination in general.