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With the objective of starting the campaign at the end of 2020 - beginning of 2021, the government will present, next week, the French vaccine strategy against the coronavirus epidemic, announced the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, this Thursday.

"The strategy and the organization that we are putting in place for the vaccine" will be presented "next week", the Prime Minister indicated during his press conference.

Priority audience determined by December

"The government will tell you next week its new strategy" to test, alert, protect, treat "," Jean Castex also said.

Still uncertain a few weeks ago, the prospect of a vaccine protecting against Covid-19 has materialized over the past two weeks with a shower of announcements from laboratories concerning the effectiveness of their vaccine: Pfizer and BioNTech have drawn the first, followed by Moderna and AstraZeneca / University of Oxford.

The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, recalled that the High Authority of Health (HAS) was called upon to determine in particular which would be “the target audiences” to be vaccinated as a priority, with “first intermediate recommendations” expected “at the end of November” and “Consolidated” during the “first half of December”.

"Everything will be presented to the French in complete transparency", also promised Olivier Véran, conceding that "France may well be the country of Pasteur, it is a country which sometimes doubts, and which sometimes strongly doubts, more strongly than the others. , when it comes to vaccine and the vaccine is produced within such tight deadlines ”.

"Vaccination will not go hand in hand with the abandonment of barrier gestures"

He reiterated the objective, set by Emmanuel Macron, that the first vaccinations take place at the end of the year or at the beginning of 2021, subject to obtaining the authorization of the European Medicines Agency.

But Olivier Véran also affirmed that "vaccination will not go hand in hand with the abandonment of barrier gestures", such as wearing a mask or not shaking hands.

The Minister of Health also indicated that the government did not rule out resorting to massive testing campaigns, as claimed by some experts.

"We are making progress on at least one project on which we will have the opportunity to communicate in the very next few days," said Olivier Véran, but he recalled that "in France, we do not have a legal tool and it is not in the French tradition to force people to seek treatment or have exams ”.

The question of the isolation of patients 

The government must also decide the question of a possible compulsory isolation for infected people, a much debated subject.

The Prime Minister announced that the government would present its own bill on this point, specifying that the intention of the government was not to "control for the sake of control" or "to impose a constraint".

Finally, concerning the plan requested Tuesday evening by Emmanuel Macron to "take into account the psychological consequences of the pandemic", Olivier Véran specified that the interministerial delegate for mental health Frank Bellivier plancha on the subject, "to set up a strategy follow-up, support and accompaniment of all people who are in need of care ”.

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