Illustration of a caregiver ready to receive an injection of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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  • On Thursday, hospitals in Brest and Morlaix had suspended the vaccination of their caregivers due to side effects.

  • The anti-covid units had seen several professionals suffer from headaches and fever after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.

  • Vaccination will resume this Friday, assures ARS Brittany, which wants to reassure on the "classic" aspect of these side effects.

Vaccination of caregivers has been suspended in several Breton health establishments that used AstraZeneca doses on Thursday.

The information revealed by Le Télégramme was confirmed this Friday by the director of the Breton regional health agency Stéphane Mulliez.

“We have received reports from some health facilities of non-serious side effects such as fever and headache (headache).

These side effects led to work stoppages.

“In Morlaix and Brest, several caregivers who received their injection had to return home because of the side effects caused by the vaccine used for those under 65.

The management of the two establishments in Finistère had taken the decision to suspend their campaign on Thursday.

According to the Regional Health Agency, the two hospitals will resume vaccination of their caregivers on Friday.

“We sent them the recommendations of the ANSM (Medicines Agency) which advises to stagger the vaccinations in the departments in order to avoid too many work stoppages in the same unit.

Taking paracetamol is recommended to reduce the inconvenience, ”explains Stéphane Mulliez.

At the Vannes hospital center, 18% of vaccinated caregivers took sick leave.

A figure that the health authorities are trying to put into perspective.

“These stops are very short, often twenty-four hours.

The undesirable effects described are fairly standard in the context of a vaccination ", assures the director of ARS Brittany, who has ruled out" any suspicion "around a possible defective batch.

Less than 150 declarations at national level

In France, 149 reports of flu syndrome were recorded among the 10,000 people vaccinated between February 6 and 10.

These symptoms, often of high intensity (high fever, body aches, headaches) affected health professionals of an average age of 34 years.

“These adverse effects are known and described with vaccines,” the ANSM indicated in a press release.

Vaccination of caregivers will therefore continue in the region, in particular "because of the necessary continuity of health activities".

Saturday, 14,000 doses of the vaccine from the pharmaceutical group born from the merger of the Swedish Astra and the British Zeneca had been received in Brittany.

Just over 15,000 new doses are expected.

Brittany remains the least affected region

Since January 4 and the start of the vaccination campaign, 137,000 injections have been carried out, or 3.25% of the Breton population, against 3% for the national average.

The region remains the least affected by the coronavirus in France.

Thursday, it had an incidence rate of 104 per 100,000 inhabitants, against 200 for the French average.

With a rate of 175, the Rennes metropolitan area worries the authorities more.

Just over 1,200 people have lost their lives as a result of Covid-19 in the region.

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