Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, January 15, 2021. -

AFP

Visiting Grenoble, Minister of Health Olivier Véran assured on Monday that the milestone of one million French people vaccinated against Covid-19 would be "largely reached by the end of the month".

“With the acceleration of the vaccination campaign in nursing homes.

We will have largely reached one million French people vaccinated by the end of the month, ”he told reporters after visiting the Grenoble CHU vaccination center where he himself worked as a neurologist.

"Not everyone can be vaccinated in a day or a week, not because the logistics would not follow, but because the challenge is to have enough doses to vaccinate all French people", a- he warned, however.

"Just in time"

This short visit was organized on the occasion of the opening of vaccinations to all people aged over 75 and to those with “high risk” pathologies (chronic renal failure, cancer under treatment, etc.).

Vaccination has hitherto been reserved for certain priority groups including nursing home residents or caregivers.

“Whenever doses arrive, we make them immediately available, we open appointment slots for the French.

We are in a tight flow, it is our strategy, it is the strategy of all the countries which vaccinate ”, assured Olivier Véran.

In response to some elected officials who consider the deliveries of vaccines to be insufficient in their territories, the minister retorted: "we have given in each territory the precise number of doses delivered this week, next week, the week after and that of again. afterwards, to give readability and visibility to all the teams in the vaccination centers ”.

More vaccines in the East

“All the people who have opened appointment slots for in three weeks, for example, know and knew in advance how many doses of vaccine would be delivered to them.

If the question is "the more people I program, the more vaccines will be given to me to the detriment of neighboring territories", the answer is no ", he insisted, however, mentioning" an exception ".

In the “territories in which the virus circulates the most, notably the Grand-Est, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté or Nice and the Alpes Maritimes (…), we have given more vaccines with the Moderna vaccine, because there l 'epidemic causes much more damage than in Grenoble or elsewhere in France, ”he detailed.

In total, 6.4 million people are thus called upon to be vaccinated in more than 800 centers.

The Minister of Health, who invites "patience", aims between 2.4 million vaccinations by the end of February "and perhaps 4 million if other vaccines ordered were to be approved".

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