First vaccination in the municipal nursing home in Nice, Les Anciens Combattants, on January 4 (illustration) -

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  • The department has 33 vaccination centers, 13 operating every working day and 20 local branches open on specific beaches.

  • Nearly 14,000 people are vaccinated this Wednesday evening in the Alpes-Maritimes.

  • The incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants has dropped slightly since last week.

"We will receive 10,000 to 11,000 doses from next week," announces Bernard Gonzalez, prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes.

"We can reassure communities about the number of doses they can count on."

For the sake of territorial equity, vaccines are distributed among the 33 vaccination centers in the department according to the percentage of people over 75 years old.

This vaccination strategy is "a specific maralpine" specifies the prefect.

He continues: "We have decided to reach out to our populations through the deployment of a heavy local system which works thanks to the solidarity of all the communities".

Every evening, the operational unit, created by the prefecture as a monitoring tool, inquires about the needs of the centers in order to "manage deliveries as well as possible".

Bernard Gonzalez recommends a “pre-registration” service before making appointments and then “calling back patients according to the doses arrived”.

Wednesday evening, 14,000 people were vaccinated, or "30% of the population over 75 years of the region", according to the prefect.

2,000 vaccinations per day in the Alpes-Maritimes

"It all depends on the pace of deliveries, but we hope that by the end of February, the 135,000 people over 75 in the department will be vaccinated," says the prefect.

Romain Alexandre, departmental director of the Regional Health Agency specifies: “We have been provided with two vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

In mid-February, we will eventually be able to go faster with vaccination if Moderna delivers more to us ”.

The Alpes-Maritimes received 4,875 doses of Moderna and nearly 15,000 of Pfizer-BioNTech, additional allocations given "the exceptional situation" of the department.

With an incidence rate of 435 confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the department on Tuesday against 456 last Friday, the figures are slightly down but hospitals are "just in time with 250 patients hospitalized for Covid and 70 in intensive care", admits Romain Alexandre.

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