Jean Castex, Prime Minister.
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No relaxation.
Prime Minister Jean Castex wished this Saturday a "progressive" vaccination campaign against Covid-19 "in peace and order", ensuring that the challenge "would be met" even if it is impossible to vaccinate the most 75 years "in a few days".
He said 390,000 people had been vaccinated to date in France and that a million vaccination appointments had been made, while accusations of delays continue against the government.
"I remind you all that these vaccinations will be carried out in the order and in the safety due to our fellow citizens", affirmed the head of government during a trip to Lyon, alongside the president (LR) from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez.
These vaccinations "will be carried out gradually, as the 200 million doses of vaccine that France has ordered or pre-ordered arrive on national territory", he added.
Facing the challenge of vaccination
"We will not be able to vaccinate in a few days, no more in France than elsewhere, the five million people over the age of 75 who can begin to be vaccinated on Monday," admitted Jean Castex.
"This challenge too, it will be taken up (…) calmly and by telling people the truth, even when the manufacturing processes will lead, as we sometimes see, to delays in delivery for our country", he said. said, after the cold sweats caused the day before by the announcement by Pfizer of a drop in pace "for three to four weeks".
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However, the laboratory said it had put in place a "plan" to speed up production and return to the initial schedule for deliveries to the European Union "from the week of January 25".
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