Vaccination strategy: the government wants to show that it is ready

Prime Minister Jean Castex will present this Thursday, December 3, France's vaccine strategy and the fight against Covid-19.

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What will France's vaccine strategy be?

The government presents its plan this Thursday evening.

Calendar, authorizations, organization: Prime Minister Jean Castex, who will be surrounded by several ministers including that of Health, Olivier Véran, will detail these choices.

It is also about countering the opposition's attacks on the management of the health crisis.

After the failures on the masks and the tests, the government does not want to stumble on the next step: the vaccination campaign.

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These gentlemen of the English fired first.

By

giving the green light

to one of the vaccines, Britain has put pressure on these European neighbors.

Prime Minister Jean Castex therefore wants to prove that France has "

 no delay

 ", we say to Matignon. 

"

 We are in a common approach with the European Union, the vaccines will be deployed simultaneously, 

" says one in the entourage of Jean Castex.

A minister explains: “ 

This is to show that everything is ready to press the button as soon as the authorizations fall.

 " 

The government had to cash Wednesday the conclusions of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the response at the beginning of the year to the pandemic and they are severe: "

 faulty management 

", lack of anticipation and late decisions.

Jean Castex will therefore detail this Thursday how the vaccination campaign will be organized: orders, storage, logistics deployment, involvement of doctors and local communities.

And he will also announce the audiences who will be vaccinated first, " 

probably between the end of December and the beginning of January,

 " President

Emmanuel Macron

said on Tuesday

.

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