Published on 02/18/2021 at 11:57 p.m.
Updated 02/19/2021 at 12:07 am
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Vaccination against Covid-19 will be able to take place in companies “probably from the end of the month” of February, starting with 50-64 year olds with co-morbidities, the Secretary of State said Thursday evening in charge of occupational health, Laurent Pietraszewski. “The moment has come, thanks in particular to the AstraZeneca vaccine”, he said. at the microphone of BFM Business before specifying that this would be done “very gradually”, “probably from the end of the month”.
“It will be possible for (…) 50-64 year olds who present with comorbidities” (unstabilised diabetes, cardiovascular disease …) to be “vaccinated as part of their occupational health service. Your doctor at work can vaccinate you, “he added. In accordance with the “recommendations of the health authorities”, only the AstraZeneca vaccine can be injected for the moment in the context of occupational medicine, continued Laurent Pietraszewski, who also recalled that there was still no question of make vaccination in the workplace compulsory.
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In addition, from February 25, doctors will be able to vaccinate in their office. They are nearly 30,000, mainly generalists, to have volunteered. They have each ordered 10 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which they will be able to inoculate to their patients aged between 50 and 64 whom they consider priority. A number, however, insufficient since 250,000 doses have not found a taker. But “this is a good result given the very short time available to us and the information circulating on the efficacy and side effects of this vaccine,” Jacques Battistoni, president of MG France, told Agence France Presse. .
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