Geriatrician Pierre Jouanny received a dose of the Pfizer vaccine on December 27 in France.

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While scientists and elected officials from all sides criticize the slowness of the deployment of the vaccine campaign, LREM deputy Roland Lescure assured, this Thursday on France 2, that the objective of 15 to 20 million French people vaccinated against the coronavirus at the end of the first semester will be held.

The MP for the majority assumed this launch which is done "slowly": it allows according to him to "ensure that the logistics chain is well established" and "reassure everyone" on the safety of vaccines, while mistrust is particularly strong in France.

"From next week we will accelerate"

“What should not be missed is the rise in power.

We entered a marathon: we do not judge the quality of a marathon after 1 km of running.

From next week we will accelerate, at the end of January beginning of February, hundreds of thousands of French people will be vaccinated ”, he assured.

“The objective of 15 to 20 million French people vaccinated in the first half of the year, not only is it tenable but we will keep it,” added Roland Lescure, also chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal assured Wednesday that the goal of vaccinating a million people at risk by the end of February "will be held", and Professor Alain Fischer, the "vaccine man" appointed by the government, called the critics a “false quarrel” by inviting people to plan “in a few weeks” to judge progress.

"We have not fallen behind" compared to the planned plan and the campaign will "accelerate", insisted the Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune Thursday on LCI, assuring that "there is no shortage of doses ": France has" received the same number in proportion to the population as Germany so there is no dropout ".

The Republicans demand the hearing of Olivier Véran

In recent days, criticism has been leveled against the government as Germany has already vaccinated 78,000 people, Italy 8,300 and France less than 200. LR deputy chairman Damien Abad and LR deputy Eric Ciotti asked on Wednesday l hearing in "emergency" of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on the strategy of vaccination of France which is in their eyes "figure of donkey hat" in Europe.

On the left, Valérie Rabault, president of the PS group in the National Assembly, demanded in an interview with

L'Obs on

Wednesday that the government publishes "in the daily health point the number of vaccinations carried out by department", an "essential transparency" .

It also calls for vaccinating "more caregivers more quickly", and to put in place a communication strategy giving a "positive vision" of vaccination.

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