The convoy is secure, flanked by motorcycles of the gendarmerie. 30 vials of the vaccine against the coronavirus are brought Saturday, December 26 to Dijon (Côte-d’Or). The batch is one of the first 19,500 doses delivered in France. In the Paris region, the safes are padlocked to protect the precious merchandise. The insulated boxes were sent from Belgium. We must now take all precautions to handle the 3,900 vials, because the sinews of war for this vaccine is the cold chain. “We have temperature markers that we will have to validate, on each of the four tanks received, to verify that the temperature is indeed at -80 ° C.“, explains Franck Huet, head of the Paris Hospitals pharmacy division.
The vaccines are stored in super-freezers, 24 hours a day. The injections will begin on Sunday, December 27. “From tomorrow at 2 p.m. there will be the first vaccinations in the geriatric center […] backed by Dijon University Hospital“, reports journalist Camille Guttin live from Dijon. A medical prescription will be made, before a pre-vaccination consultation to detect possible contraindications or allergies.”Above all, this is where the patient’s consent is obtained“, specifies the journalist.
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