This year’s meter reached nearly 74 million euros at a 35th edition that returned to the ground after a previous confined for Covid-19.
Le Monde with AFP
Launched Friday, December 3, Telethon, this great popular and media event collection for rare disease research, this year, this year, reinvest cities and villages in France. And it makes a difference on the amount of promises of gifts.
The final meter displays, Sunday, December 5, 73 622 019 euros, net rising compared to the total of 58.3 million euros lifted during the term of the Telethon in 2020. A total of 77 million had been recorded last year at the counter, the one remaining open still some time after the event; But because of the COVID-19, this equivalent event had been reduced to its retransmission on the chains of France Télévisions and to challenges on the Internet.
Conviviality and party spirit
The amount of this year’s promises of donations are close to that of the 2019 edition, before the country knows CVIV-19 epidemic and confinement. The counter was 74.6 million euros promised, for 87 million harvested.
“We have been able to reconnect with the conviviality and party spirit on the ground”, in respect of barrier gestures, welcomed the France-Presse (AFP), the President of the AFM-TELETHON ORGANIZATION, LAURENCE TIENNOT-HERMENT. Despite a low mild weather in many departments, animations were able to take place in nearly 10,000 communes.