Olivier Véran, January 9, 2020 in Tarbes.

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Olivier Véran is expected by parliamentarians on Tuesday.

The Minister of Health is to be heard from noon by the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on the government's vaccination strategy.

At 5 pm, he will be heard by the Senate Social Affairs Committee.

"I ask that the Minister of Health Olivier Véran be heard by the commission as quickly as possible in order to expose the corrective measures envisaged", had affirmed in a press release the senator LR Catherine Deroche.

"Winning" the vaccine battle

Stressing that the rapid development of vaccines has constituted "a tremendous hope", the elected representative regretted that "the country seems engaged in an inexplicable race of slowness, with the number of people vaccinated every day which counts in tens and a very comparison. unfavorable with our European neighbors ”.

"After losing the battle for masks, it is imperative to win the battle for vaccines," she added.

The Senate must also set up on January 13 a joint information mission intended to take over from the commission of inquiry on the management of the health crisis, we learned from a parliamentary source.

The president of deputies LR Damien Abad and deputy LR Eric Ciotti had also asked to hear Olivier Véran at the National Assembly, in a letter addressed to the president of the information mission on the management of the Covid-19 epidemic, the deputy LREM Julien Borowczyk.

Vaccination open to over 75s

On the vaccine front, after strong criticism of the slow start of the campaign, the country was to exceed 100,000 people this weekend for the antidote of the Pfizer / BioNTech alliance, according to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran .

More than 50,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which has just been authorized in Europe, will also be delivered on Monday to be transported to the Grand Est, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Paca to be used during the week, also announced Sunday the Ministry of Health.

The vaccination campaign should accelerate this week and the next in retirement homes (Ehpad), where around 1 million elderly people and caregivers at risk are concerned.

To give a boost, the government, which at this stage is expecting 500,000 weekly doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and eventually 500,000 doses of Moderna, has changed its strategy and opened up vaccination to all health professionals over the age of 50. or fragile, as well as to over 75s not residing in nursing homes from January 18.

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