Covid-19 in France: Castex details a vaccine campaign in three stages
Vaccination against Covid-19, which will be free for all, will begin in January for seniors in establishments, said Jean Castex on December 3 (illustrative image).
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Vaccination against Covid-19, which will be free for all, will begin in January for seniors in establishments (one million), in February for people frail by age or pathologies (14 million) then in spring for the entire population, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Thursday.
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Thanks to orders taken at European level, "
France will have a potential of 200 million doses, which would allow 100 million people to be vaccinated
" since the vaccine currently requires 2 injections a few weeks apart.
To ensure free access, the government has budgeted 1.5 billion euros for this purpose in the social security budget for 2021.
“
Our first objective is to ensure that France has enough vaccines for its population.
And obviously, and this is another advantage of the negotiations conducted at European level, in the end we will only pay what is actually delivered to us
”, underlined the Prime Minister.
The executive's plan presented to parliament
The vaccine strategy, coordinated by infectious disease specialist Alain Fischer, “
will be presented to Parliament
"During the month of December, said Thursday Jean Castex who"
undertakes that all the transparency, all the pedagogy are made on the decisions that we will take
".
The executive's plan, explained the Prime Minister, will be presented to Parliament "
as part of a debate provided for by article 50-1 of the Constitution
", which may involve a vote but does not engage responsibility. of the government.
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To read also: France: a vaccination campaign for the general public "between April and June"
Mr. Castex recalled that “
transparency
” was an “
imperative
” in the face of “
reluctance, even sometimes the fears expressed by some of you
”.
The vaccination campaign will begin with the two vaccines which will be available at best in the last days of December, if not from January, after authorization from the European and French health authorities, the Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine, added Mr. Castex.
(With
AFP
)
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