Desperate Macron uses cropped vaccine data chart to hide UK success and boast about France

EMMANUEL MACRON attempted to boast about France's vaccination campaign progress by sharing a graphic that fails to mention the UK and other countries speeding ahead of France.

The French President shared the picture of a graphic based on data released by Our World in Data on Thursday which showed that France was leading the vaccination race above the USA and Germany. In a bid to boast about himself and to convince more people to get vaccinated, He wrote: "Together we will make it happen.

"Because together France is stronger, more united, more civic, more responsible. Let's get vaccinated.

"We are France."

But Mr Macron's gloating attempt was unmasked by Charles-Henri Gallois, Generation Frexit leader, as he shared the original graphic showing the UK, Canada and Spain are ahead of France in the vaccination race.

He mocked Mr Macron: "LOL.

"A scale like Fox News which forgets about figures from Spain, from Canada or the UK as comparable countries."

It comes as France will strengthen lockdown rules in the overseas territory of Guadeloupe to rein in the spread of COVID-19, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday, as spikes in infections in its Caribbean islands overwhelm hospitals.

The French overseas territory of Martinique on Tuesday entered a tougher lockdown for three weeks to tackle the pandemic with the closure of beaches and shops selling non-essential items and restrictions on people's movements.

Authorities in Martinique have also advised tourists to leave the island.

President Emmanuel Macron, who on Wednesday held a virtual meeting with his senior cabinet ministers to discuss the pandemic, said the COVID-19 situation in the Caribbean islands was "dramatic".