While the coastal municipalities expect a sharp increase in their attendance over the coming weeks, the elected officials of the municipalities concerned are getting organized to best ensure the safety of residents and holidaymakers, while the coronavirus epidemic continues to increase. circulate. 

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With the long weekends looming and the future summer holidays, many French people are already planning to go to the seaside. A welcome crowd for the resumption of the tourist season after a year of paralysis, but which poses the issue of health security, as the coronavirus epidemic continues to hit the country.

For their part, the coastal municipalities are therefore organizing themselves before seeing their population increase sharply.

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Deliveries will intensify towards the coast

"During these periods of bridges, our city multiplies its population by 4, by 5, and until the summer by 10", explains the mayor of La Baule Franck Louvrier.

And vaccines must follow these summer migrations.

The elected representative therefore wishes to quickly go from 1,000 to 2,000 injections per day.

"We need to have the people who are protected as soon as possible because the tourism industry is going to open up! We need both these people who welcome to be protected, and those who come to be able to have the possibility of to protect yourself."

At the Ministry of Health, an adviser repeats that deliveries have started and will continue to intensify towards the coast, in particular with Janssen bottles.

For this vaccine, one dose is sufficient and gives the possibility of being vaccinated in a weekend at the sea

"The vaccine is only effective three weeks after the first dose"

In Saint-Malo, Gilles Lurton is already working to adapt the device in his city.

"We are in the process of making arrangements to increase the possibilities of vaccination in these centers," he assures us.

Here, a street crier will recall the importance of wearing a mask, there, a mayor is planning the installation of two large test areas. 

Measures necessary for Bruno Lina, member of the Scientific Council.

"The vaccine is only effective three weeks after the first dose," he recalls.

"It is indeed by applying barrier measures for a short time that we will be able to develop the time for vaccination and protection."