36,100 vials of AstraZeneca vaccine will be distributed next week among the 18,400 pharmacies volunteering to vaccinate against Covid-19.
A decree published in the Official Journal on Friday now authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and practice vaccination.
Just over 18,400 pharmacies have volunteered to vaccinate against Covid-19 next week, ordering 36,100 vials of AstraZeneca, the Ministry of Health announced Thursday.
"For the 4th week of this vaccination campaign in town, 18,402 pharmacies ordered bottles, divided between 17,698 pharmacies who ordered 2 bottles and 704 who ordered 1 bottle, for a total of 36,100 bottles", indicated the general management of health (DGS).
Pharmacists have been authorized to prescribe and inject vaccines against Covid-19 since the publication of the decree in the Official Journal last Friday.
Vaccination remains reserved primarily for people over 75 years old, over 50 years of age suffering from comorbidities and adults at very high risk, but the decree provides that pharmacists can "prescribe vaccines (..) to any person" , except those "with a hemostasis disorder" and pregnant women.
Pharmacists had until Wednesday 11 pm to come forward and will receive their doses on Thursday March 18 or Friday March 19, according to a "DGS-Urgent" note dated Monday.
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67,000 doses already sent to the departments under surveillance
These doses are in addition to some 67,000 referred to pharmacies in the departments with the highest epidemic circulation as of this Thursday or at the latest Friday, allowing some to start vaccinating this week.
The ministry had indicated Sunday that the order opened at the beginning of the week was "exceptionally open to pharmacies only because of the low number of doses delivered by the AstraZeneca laboratory", triggering the ire of liberal doctors.
In the first week, 28,844 volunteers had volunteered, 19,187 the second and around 33,000 the third.