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Faced with criticism of local elected officials whose vaccination centers have received fewer doses than expected, the director general of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France Aurélien Rousseau said Monday that their supply is was doing "just in time".

"Everything we have as doses, we use it", he assured.

77,000 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in his region and 80,000 will be this week and as many next week.

This includes 600 nursing homes, half of which will this week receive “a little over 20,000 doses for residents and staff” volunteers.

A "flow planned for a long time" and stored "in freezers pending this operation," he said.

In parallel, the ARS expects this Tuesday a delivery of 53,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, including 45,000 for "outpatient centers" intended for people over 75 years of age or "high risk" patients.

Some mayors regretted Monday having received a "limited number" (Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis), or even denounced a contradiction with "government announcements", forcing them to postpone meetings (Clamart, Hauts-de -Seine).

109 vaccination centers in Ile-de-France

"It is the number of doses which determines the number of slots" of meetings, retorts Aurélien Rousseau who says he understands the "disappointment of elected officials who struggled to set up large centers and who had less than what they could do ”.

Out of 109 centers opened in the region, 96 have however "no appointments greater than the number of doses", 5 have "a small and quite manageable overrun" and 8 have an "overbooking" that the ARS plans to "Pay by sending people to other centers or by postponing appointments by a few days".

The meager stocks, however, leave little room for maneuver: Sunday evening, there were 34,000 doses left in the region, of which 10,000 were "used to have more availability for health personnel", in order to complete the 8,000 reserved for weekly delivery from Pfizer.

Under these conditions, online appointments, already full until mid-February, should be released "over time, week after week", unless the pace of deliveries allows "reopening of slots" earlier.

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