The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced Monday that all health workers aged at least 50 or with comorbidity and working in contact with patients, including administrative agents, will be able to be vaccinated by Wednesday. 

"A hundred hospitals will offer vaccination to caregivers" by Wednesday, said Monday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, claiming to "manage stocks with due care", during a visit to the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris.

"Tonight, it is about 27 centers which have vaccines and which were able to start vaccinating caregivers and by tomorrow evening and Wednesday (...), there will be a hundred hospitals which will offer vaccination to their caregivers, as well as city carers, "said Olivier Véran. 

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All healthcare workers aged 50 or over or with co-morbidities working with patients, including administrative workers, can now be vaccinated.

"Today, we will have carried out several thousand vaccinations throughout the country, it will increase in power and it will become even more powerful from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday," he continued.

516 people vaccinated on January 1

The French vaccination campaign against Covid-19 was symbolically launched on December 27 in two hospital structures for the elderly in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis, then Dijon.

"By the end of the month, we will have been able to offer vaccination to all (of) the elderly" housed in nursing homes, assured the minister.

516 people had been vaccinated as of January 1, according to the Ministry of Health.

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"We are managing the stocks with good father as they arrive," assured the minister to a doctor who came to be vaccinated, while the government is criticized for a vaccine strategy considered too slow and too careful .

"We want local vaccination", defended Olivier Véran.

"I am not at all certain, it is my opinion, that it should take the form of large stadiums in which thousands of people would line up in the middle of winter," he continued.