At the end of the first Council of Ministers of the year, the government spokesman indicated that the executive would open 100 vaccination centers "intended for the city".

Next week, 300 centers will be open, before 500 the next week.

The number of hospitals that can vaccinate caregivers has tripled Wednesday.

France will be equipped in two weeks with 500 anti-Covid vaccination centers outside hospitals, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday, while the opposition pounded the "fiasco" of the executive's strategy.

"We are opening 100 centers for the city. This is just the start: we will open 300 next week and 500 the following week," said the government representative after the first Council of Ministers of the year.

"The President of the Republic has indicated 500 to 600 centers in the coming weeks, that is to say 5 to 6 per department", he recalled.

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In addition, "the number of hospitals which allow caregivers to be vaccinated has tripled this morning" and "will continue to gain momentum," added Gabriel Attal.

About the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, Gabriel Attal said that France would have "this evening a total of one million doses" and would receive "500,000 additional doses per week".

200,000 doses of Moderna vaccine

For the vaccine from the American laboratory Moderna, validated on Wednesday by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), "the High Authority for Health will issue its opinion very quickly, which will also allow us to be supplied for this vaccine at a rate of 200,000 doses on the first month then 500,000 doses per month ", added Gabriel Attal.

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The government intends to "carry out effectively" the vaccination campaign "and the President of the Republic has once again been very clear on this point: we have only one option on the table, that of succeeding," he said. also reported.

"We will succeed with this vaccination campaign with the elected officials", launched Gabriel Attal, recalling that this campaign was "developed in close consultation with the associations of elected officials, with the Parliament" with meetings "almost every week since now several months ", while the local elected representatives, as in the spring, denounce the shortcomings of a State in their eyes too centralized and offer their services to accelerate this campaign.