Local elected officials complain that they do not have enough doses of Covid-19 vaccine in their centers.

Under pressure, after criticism of the delays, the executive insists on a just-in-time campaign and promises to publish the number of vaccine doses available in each center and each department.

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In terms of the coronavirus vaccine, there are no hidden stocks and all the doses received have been deployed on the ground in the vaccination centers, insists the executive.

The government promises transparency in response to complaints from local elected officials, who say they are running out of doses in their vaccination centers.

Tuesday morning, from the headquarters of the ARS Île-de-France, Olivier Véran reiterated that the elected officials and all those involved in this vaccination campaign knew perfectly well, in advance, how many doses they can use this week, the week next and the next.

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Doses "immediately distributed"

Visiting the headquarters of the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency, the Minister also recalled that this vaccination was done just in time, which explains the sometimes disappointed expectations.

"I remind you that we have chosen to open vaccination to more than six million French people aged 75 and over or carriers of diseases exposing them to risks of serious forms and which we have not, at this stage , the six million vaccines, "he insisted to reporters.

"We are therefore in a just-in-time operation. Each time vaccines are delivered to us, every week, they are immediately distributed to the 900 vaccination centers throughout the country."

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Two million appointments have already been made by French people over the age of 75.

The Minister of Health also promises that the government will publish the number of vaccine doses available in each center and each department.

Objective: cut short the controversies launched by some elected officials on mismanagement of the executive.

No need to call back to the center

Finally, Olivier Véran made another very concrete promise for those who wish to receive the injection: when you are in telephone contact with a center or when you go to the website, but you do not have a time slot available, you no longer need to stay on the phone all day or frantically refresh the page.

The platform will record your contact details and the vaccination centers will remind you when slots are available to vaccinate.