Lhe acceleration given to the vaccination against Covid-19 will continue after the mass injections of this weekend, assured the government on Sunday, amounting to more than half a million the vaccinations made over three days, since Friday.
“Whenever a vaccine is available in our territory, a French must be vaccinated, whether on Monday or Sunday, the vaccines must be offered as quickly as possible,” said the minister. of Health Olivier Véran after having visited two vaccination centers in Tourcoing (North).
While the deliveries of vaccines will continue to increase “to reach in April sometimes times 5, times 6, in terms of quantity” compared to these last weeks, the organization of the centers of vaccination – in size and number – will be “adapted” accordingly, he said.
In another vaccination center, in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), he was previously pleased that the “exceptional effort” of the weekend made it possible to carry out 220,000 injections on Saturday “against 80,000-85,000 usually Saturdays “.
“585,000 French people have been vaccinated since Friday. A new stage in our battle against the virus was taken this weekend,” Prime Minister Jean Castex tweeted for his part at the end of the afternoon.
At the other end of France, the LR mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi hailed “a logistical feat” with the vaccination in the metropolis of 12,800 people this weekend.
“I have the feeling that the addition of containment and vaccination measures will lead to a drop in viral circulation sufficiently significant to no longer need to reconfine the population during the next weekends,” he said. discount.
Both in Nice and in Dunkirk, the authorities will have to decide on a renewal or not of the confinements imposed for two weekends, until March 7.
Highlighting a “growing craze among caregivers” to be vaccinated, Mr. Véran also said he was “convinced that the rate of adherence to the vaccination of carers will join the general rate of the French”.
In a letter released Friday, he called on caregivers to be vaccinated “quickly” in the name of “collective security”, a call taken up Sunday by seven orders of health professions. In a press release, these orders emphasize that it is an “ethical duty”.
Asked about the possibility of making vaccination compulsory for caregivers, Mr. Véran said he favored “for the moment dialogue and conviction”.
He lamented that the AstraZeneca vaccine suffers from a “bad image”, while it is “safe and hyper effective”.
In terms of territorial allocation, “when there is an inequity that is created, whatever the reasons, we must obviously correct it”, he also noted, while the contributions of vaccines have been reinforced in Hauts-de-France after many elected officials had denounced a delay.
The minister justified the four weekends of confinement imposed in March in Pas-de-Calais by a “high epidemic trend” associated with “hospital pressure and intensive care at the same level as during the second wave”.
“In Seine-Saint-Denis, the hospital occupancy rate is a little different (?) And there is the territorial reality. If you confine Seine-Saint-Denis, you limit the Ile de France”, a- he said in response to criticism of discriminatory treatment inflicted on Pas-de-Calais.
“To” catch up on the Hauts-de-France (…) we will have 6,000 doses every week from this week “, which represents” about 10% more vaccinations possible each week “, his side indicated Benoît Vallet, director of the Hauts-de-France regional health agency.
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07/03/2021 19:07:37 – Tourcoing (AFP) – © 2021 AFP
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