It is an additional option.
First doses of Novavax, an anti-Covid vaccine without messenger RNA, will be able to “be administered from Tuesday” at the Baie-Mahault vaccination center in Guadeloupe, according to the center coordinator.
In this center, the crowd does not rush to get vaccinated.
"When we returned from Shrove Days (non-working days in Guadeloupe, until Ash Wednesday), we had 98 people in one day, but since then it's been on the decline," explains Isabelle Behnke, coordinator.
“We will see if the arrival of the Novavax vaccine on the territory changes the situation: there was still demand”, she continues.
This Novavax vaccine, whose technology is said to be “more classic than that with messenger RNA”, could convince some refractory to vaccination in Guadeloupe.
This Monday morning, Isabelle Behnke called all those who had said they were in favor of this vaccine to inform them of its arrival.
Slow decline of the epidemic
In Guadeloupe, the epidemic is experiencing a “gradual but slow decrease”, which has been confirmed “for four weeks”, the authorities said at the end of last week in a press release.
The latest figures published could not take into account possible contamination during the very popular carnival.
Despite the drop in contamination, the indicators remain “still above the alert thresholds”, specified this press release which reported a positivity rate of 8.1%, the incidence rate exceeding 400 per 100,000 inhabitants. .
In Guadeloupe, still subject to a curfew at 11:00 p.m., nightclubs are now “authorized to welcome the public from 11:00 p.m. a “proof of entry or consumption, in the event of returning home during the curfew”.
The prefect had announced on February 25 a postponement of the application of the vaccine pass to March 28, in order “to let people wishing to be vaccinated with Novavax be able to do so”.
In Guadeloupe, just over 45% of the population received a first dose, 43% a second, and 22.5% a third of the Pfizer vaccine.
According to the website of the collective of caregivers “Covid urgence Outre-mer” (which brings together doctors who have called for vaccination, especially at the height of the 4th wave), the week of February 25, the island counted “the 1,000 e death linked to Covid “.
An "unprecedented carnage since the cholera epidemic" in Guadeloupe between the end of November 1865 and March 1866".
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