Emmanuel Macron set a precise vaccination schedule for the coming months on Wednesday.
Announcing more substantial deliveries of vaccines from April, he hopes to be able to allow all French people to have access to them before the end of the summer.
An achievable goal ... if the laboratories respect their commitments.
The President of the Republic continues to believe in his bet, that of vaccination.
During his speech on Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron recalled a figure: 8.5 million people received at least one injection (or 12.7% of the total population), and nearly 2.9 million people received their two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
For the Head of State, vaccination is "the key to reconnecting with life".
And he even set a very precise timetable for the French not yet vaccinated.
Objective stated: that all French people who wish to be vaccinated before the end of the summer.
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Delivery of nearly 13 million doses in April
"We put all the means to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. Without respite, without holidays, Saturday and Sunday, like the week. From April 16, the first appointments will be granted to people between 60 and 70 years old. years; from May 15, the first appointments will be open for our fellow citizens who are between 50 and 60 years old; and from mid-June, the appointments will be open to all French people under 50 years, ”he promised.
A vaccination schedule that the Head of State believes he can keep, the latter having specified that the deliveries of vaccines in the coming months will be much more substantial.
Indeed, if pharmaceutical companies respect their commitments, France will receive nearly 13 million doses in April, or as many as for the months of February and March combined.
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Rate of 330,000 injections per day
The ramp-up will then continue and intensify with 17 million doses expected in May and 26 million in June.
In the coming days, super-vaccination centers will open all over the country with the clear objective of providing between 1,000 and 2,000 injections per day in each vaccinodrome.
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"You will see that from May-June, our fight will be to convince enough people to be vaccinated," the President confided a few days ago in private.
To succeed in his bet and keep his calendar, it will still be necessary to maintain a rate of 330,000 injections per day, which is exactly the number of vaccinations carried out for the single day of Wednesday.