12 h 05.- The municipal theater of Thionville, a new vaccination center?
The prefect planned, in the wake of this visit to the Bel-Air hospital, to go to the municipal theater of Thionville. Mayor Pierre Cuny wants this structure to serve as a vaccination center and be operational “from mid-March”. “The ambition is to vaccinate 600 people there per day”.
12 p.m. – The main measure: strengthen vaccination
The main measure is to strengthen vaccination. The centers reopened this weekend to administer 2,000 emergency doses.
“Open Friday evening, reservations were already filled Saturday at 11 am,” testified Marie-Odile Saillard, director of CHR Metz-Thionville. To date, 35,000 Mosellans have received the first dose of vaccine and 10,000 the second added the prefect, who did not specify the height of the rise to come. “A different distribution of vaccines is being organized at the national level but it is too early to tell. We are going to widen the ranges of the ten existing centers and open new municipal centers on the proposal of the municipalities.”
The vaccination center on rue Thérèse in Forbach thus opened its doors urgently this weekend. Vaccination remains reserved for people over 75 years of age or with long-term illnesses that make them vulnerable to the virus.
11 h 50.- A renforcement of screening in the department
Faced with the outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Moselle, the idea is to strengthen screening. “Moselle is the department which already tests the most with 40,000 tests per week. We are going to do more, in particular by opening points on the public highway from this Sunday on the Place de la République in Metz or Forbach, as well as a screening center in a gymnasium in Metz-Borny.
The Marseille firefighters will also be hard at work from Monday in Moselle. “They come to analyze the wastewater, which will allow neighborhoods to determine the presence of the virus and then conduct more tests to detect positive cases, sometimes even before the first symptoms.”
11 h 40.- “The current measures are sufficient”
Regarding confinement: “the current measures are sufficient,” said the prefect. There will also be no restriction on movement. “Local elected officials agree that the inconveniences would be very great in this department, which is very interdependent on its neighbors.”
11:30 a.m. – No school closures or harsher confinement in Moselle
Visiting this morning to the vaccination center of Bel-Air hospital in Thionville, Laurent Touvet, prefect of Moselle announced that schools would not close in the department. There will also be no additional containment measures at this stage.
“There will be no general closure. It would be excessive given the number of cases,” said the prefect adding that on Friday, only 100 classes out of 4,000 were closed in Moselle. On the other hand, from Monday, for each positive case, the class will be closed immediately and the positive student will be isolated for 10 days instead of 7. “The prefect added that out of 5,000 tests carried out in schools, only 14 were proven positive.
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11 h 20.- “2,000 vaccines is not enough”
Pierre Cuny, mayor of Thionville and president of the Portes de France agglomeration, reacts:
2,000 vaccines? This is largely insufficient for a territory like ours.
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“We must speed up the campaign so that the vaccine curve takes precedence over that of variants. This will only happen through the opening of municipal vaccination centers. I repeat: in Thionville, we have been ready for weeks.”
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11 a.m. – Two thousand additional people vaccinated this weekend
Following the decision taken by Olivier Véran to increase vaccination in Moselle, Laurent Touvet, prefect of Moselle, is visiting this morning at the Bel-Air hospital center in Thionville. The Metz-Thionville CHR announces that two thousand more people than expected will be vaccinated this weekend. Open Friday evening, the reservation counted on Mercy’s hospital only two free slots this Saturday at 11 a.m.
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10 h 50.- Moselle awaiting arbitration
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, was in Metz this Friday afternoon for a consultation with local elected officials, following the surge in the number of cases of variants in the department. Despite the recommendations of the Moselle elected officials, no major decision was taken when the minister came. No confinement, no advanced curfew or even a closure of schools.
Olivier Véran held a press conference in front of the prefecture. With 100 new cases per day, the minister explained that he wanted to strengthen the vaccination policy in the Moselle department and announced the sending of 2,000 additional doses of Moderna vaccines in the coming days. He also explained “continue the consultation and discuss the issue of schools.” The answer should arrive this Saturday morning. What will the executive announce?
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