The vaccination campaign is entering a new phase of acceleration, this Monday, with the arrival in pharmacies of the Moderna vaccine, also available at the end of the week from general practitioners.
In total, 300,000 doses must be administered in pharmacies each week.
While 23 million French people have received a first injection - all vaccines combined - Moderna's serum, which works, like Pfizer, with messenger RNA technology, can from Monday be administered as close as possible to the population. .
The vaccine is indeed landing in pharmacies, with the objective of further accelerating the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in France.
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Almost 15,000 pharmacies have already ordered.
Each pharmacy will receive two vials of Moderna vaccine, vials that contain 10 doses.
General practitioners also have the right to order a bottle.
The first deliveries are scheduled for Thursday and the first injections on Saturday but it will really start from next Monday.
300,000 doses administered each week in pharmacies
"This is the start of the real vaccination campaign in town by pharmacists and doctors, with this Moderna vaccine, which arrives the day we open the campaign to all adults", welcomes Philippe Besset, president of the Federation. of the pharmaceutical unions of France, who until then considered that pharmacists were underutilized in this vaccination campaign.
"We will have a full month to speed up the vaccination campaign."
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300,000 doses will be administered each week in pharmacies.
For the general public, no restrictions.
The rule is simple and clear: first come, first served.
So if you rely on this Moderna vaccine to be immunized, you can already get closer to your pharmacist.