Criticized for the slowness of its vaccine campaign, the government wants to accelerate, to fight against Covid-19 contamination.
According to the JDD, Emmanuel Macron will lead a meeting on the subject on Monday.
Mobile teams could also be created to immunize the elderly living at home.
If the vaccination campaign first targeted residents of nursing homes and health professionals over 50 years of age or at risk, all people over 75 years of age can in turn be vaccinated against Covid-19 from January 18.
They will then have to make an appointment.
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The campaign will indeed accelerate according to the journalist of the
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Anne-Laure Barret.
"Emmanuel Macron will chair a meeting at the Elysee Palace on Monday, in particular on the subject of the vaccine. The idea is to maintain attention so that the acceleration observed this week continues and that the pace continues to accelerate", develops she at the microphone of Europe 1. "Friday evening, there were already 169 operational structures. Next week, 200 new places of vaccination should emerge".
"The authorities and elected officials are wondering how to reach the elderly who live at home but who have mobility difficulties. In many places, we are trying to create mobile teams. Nurses and doctors could go to the homes of the elderly. to vaccinate them directly at home ", also confides Anne-Laure Barret.
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