The Grand Est region, particularly affected by the coronavirus, is preparing to receive its first vaccines.
The Director General of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Virginie Cayré announced that the first vaccinations would take place Monday in "thirty pilot sites".
Vaccination against Covid-19 will begin Monday in the Grand Est region, where the epidemic is once again "worrying".
There will be "around thirty pilot sites from next Monday across the Grand Est region, social and medico-social establishments and long-term care units," said the Director General of the Regional Health Agency on Wednesday. (ARS) Virginie Cayré, without detailing the sites concerned.
This first step foreshadows vaccination throughout the region by the first half of January.
650 potential vaccination sites by January 15
"The work is being finalized for the pre-vaccination consultations and the collection of consents so that the vaccinations can take place from January 4," added the director general of the ARS, during a conference of joint press with the prefect of the Grand Est region, Josiane Chevalier.
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"From January 11 and especially January 15," vaccination will be extended "to all establishments concerned: nursing homes and long-term care units", or "more than 650 potential vaccination sites", added Ms. Cayré , indicating that vaccines were being delivered to the region that day.
A worrying situation in the Grand Est
Already particularly hit by the Covid-19 epidemic in the spring, the Grand Est region is worried about a worrying rise in contamination, in particular among the elderly.
"The circulation of the virus in the Grand Est region is not weakening, but on the contrary is progressing", summarized Virginie Cayré, citing a "worrying situation".
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With the exception of Bas-Rhin, the nine other departments of the Grand Est region are affected by an advancement of the curfew to 6 p.m. envisaged by the government, due to an incidence rate, in the general population. or among those over 65, over 200 per 100,000.
The prefect of Bas-Rhin, also prefect of the Grand Est region, Josiane Chevalier, confirmed that consultations between prefects and local elected officials had started on Wednesday and that the announcements would take place "today or tomorrow".