Resident of the Hôtel-Dieu nursing home in Rennes, Serge is the first person to be vaccinated in Ille-et-Vilaine this Tuesday afternoon.

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J. Gicquel / 20 Minutes

  • The coronavirus vaccination campaign started this week in nursing homes in Brittany.

  • Resident at the Hôtel-Dieu nursing home in Rennes, Serge was the first person to be vaccinated this Tuesday afternoon in Ille-et-Vilaine.

  • Four vaccination centers have just been installed in the main Breton hospitals to vaccinate health professionals.

His name is Serge, is 67 years old and lives at the Ehpad Hôtel-Dieu of the Rennes University Hospital.

Ten days after Mauricette, the first person vaccinated in France against Covid-19, the sexagenarian received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday afternoon in Ille-et-Vilaine.

"Prevention is better than cure," he assured full of enthusiasm under the lens of the photographers.

It's like the flu, if we can, we might as well seek treatment ”.

A few minutes later, it was a health professional, Professor Dominique Somme, head of the geriatric medicine department at the Rennes University Hospital, who was vaccinated by a nurse somewhat intimidated by the cameras which had come to immortalize the scene.

Head of the geriatric medicine department at the CHU, Professor Dominique Somme was also vaccinated this Tuesday afternoon.

- J. Gicquel / 20 Minutes

While the Government, under fire from critics, announced on Tuesday a whole series of measures to speed up vaccinations, the campaign is just starting this week in several French regions.

This is the case in Brittany where the first injections were administered to around thirty residents of the Saint-Renan nursing home near Brest (Finistère).

A stock of 25,000 doses available for the moment

In all, fourteen pilot sites, nine nursing homes and five long-term care units were selected by the health authorities to launch this first phase of the vaccination campaign in the region.

"The strategy adopted is to vaccinate as a priority the elderly in collective structures or health professionals over 50 years of age or with comorbid disorders", specifies Stéphane Mulliez, director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Brittany. .

In the coming weeks, vaccination will extend to 500 Breton Ehpads with a stock of 25,000 doses of anti-Covid vaccine available for the hour in the region, carefully stored in four super-freezers at -80 ° C. "C 'is sufficient for the moment with a restocking which will be done gradually for the second injections ”, specifies the director of ARS Bretagne.

Four vaccination centers in hospitals in the region

Health establishments are also in the starting blocks to vaccinate their staff.

Four vaccination centers have just been set up in the main Breton hospitals.

They will be able in particular to welcome professionals in liberal, nurses, midwives as well as firefighters or home helpers as announced this Tuesday morning the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

"We hope to be able to vaccinate several hundred people this week," said Véronique Anatole-Touzet, director general of the Rennes University Hospital.

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