New windows to receive a third dose soon open?

Olivier Véran announced Thursday that pharmacists "who wish" will now be able to open their pharmacies without limitation every Sunday in December and January to vaccinate the French against Covid-19.

A decree which aims to "simplify and amplify this recall campaign", assured the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.

"France is one of the countries in the world which vaccinates the most in daily booster vaccination, yesterday more than 650,000 French people received a booster injection", he declared on France 2 adding that it is necessary to "go more faster, louder, there is an emergency ”.

"We are increasing the number of centers that can vaccinate: the liberals, pharmacists, doctors, physiotherapists, nursing midwives who can vaccinate in town receive this week more than 4 million doses of messenger RNA vaccines," he said. -he says.

The white plan soon to be national

The epidemic continues to flare: France on Wednesday recorded a record number of contaminations recorded in 24 hours, 72,000 according to Olivier Véran.

"We had not known this since the start of the pandemic," he said.

The previous record, around 70,000, dated from early November 2020.

The minister also assured that the white plan in hospitals "will also probably be national within a few days since each region one after the other (the) triggers".

Six regions have already reactivated it, including Ile-de-France, in order to deprogram operations and reassign staff to critical care services.

"The epidemic does not particularly affect one region, it is national, all territories are absolutely affected and there is now a patient who goes into intensive care every 6 minutes in our country," added Olivier Véran.

No new restrictions in sight

According to the minister, the peak of contamination of this 5th wave could be reached "by the end of the month" if the French apply "strict respect for barrier gestures" and limit gatherings. "We are seeing a slowdown in epidemic growth: we were at + 60% of cases in a week, then + 40%, now it is between + 25 and + 30%", he said, calling the French to "multiply daily efforts".

"We do not need to impose restrictions, since the French know how to protect themselves from the virus: it is the aperitif with friends that we will cancel even if it is the end of the year period, this are the company aperitifs, those moments of conviviality, moments of relaxation, where you take off the mask too easily because you feel safe, ”added Olivier Véran.

According to him, compliance with these measures has already had a “braking effect” that must be “amplified”.

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Coronavirus: Pharmacists will earn more if they vaccinate on Sundays and holidays

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