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  • In a press release, President LR of the Bouches-du-Rhône department accuses the state of limiting the opening of vaccination centers for lack of doses.

  • The director of the ARS denies any shortage, but recognizes that the opening of a vaccination center is conditioned by the supply of vaccines.

Are Bouches-du-Rhône lacking vaccines because of the state?

In a press release sent this weekend, the president of the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental council Martine Vassal accuses the government of blocking the extent of vaccination in the territory, for lack of sufficient doses.

“We are still missing two important elements, writes Martine Vassal.

One, the number of doses sufficient to meet demand.

Two, state authorizations to open enough centers throughout the country.

During his last speech, Prime Minister Jean Castex spoke of 6 centers per department.

We offered them 54. On an initial list of 13 sites ready to open on Monday, especially for those over 75, only 5 of our centers were accepted […] Faced with the shortage of vaccines, the State is forced limit vaccination centers.

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Asked about this, the director of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Health Agency Philippe de Mester denies any shortage of vaccines that would not meet the demand "In fact, in our region, we are receiving all the vaccines you need, he tells

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And even a little more.

There is not a fight to get the doses.

We provide them.

"And to specify:" we received this morning 11,000 doses and we have 15,000 in stock for the department.

Doses which are kept in the only adapted fridge available to the department, at the Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille.

“As I speak to you, there are sufficient doses, said the socialist mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan during a press point on the opening of vaccination centers in Marseille.

We have something to see coming this week, the following week and the week after.

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However, Philippe de Mester acknowledges being held back by the stock of vaccine doses available to the department today to extend vaccination.

“Martine Vassal knows very well that the number of centers also depends on the number of doses that we have and that we cannot multiply.

We are dependent on industrialists ”

Also, on this first day of vaccination reserved for over 75s, the queues are already long.

It must be said that the tens of thousands of doses remain quite insufficient when we know that the department has 200,000 people over the age of 75 according to the ARS.

In Marseille alone, the vaccination center opened this Monday morning at the town hall is full for three weeks.

"We supply the centers according to the appointments that have been made," explains Philippe de Mester.

We deliver the necessary doses daily to the people who are registered.

So it's a continuous flow.

The same thing always happens when you open this kind of service, there is a huge influx.

It should be regulated in the next few days.

According to the ARS, 1,500 people are being vaccinated this Monday in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

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  • Covid 19

  • Vaccine

  • Marseilles

  • Martine Vassal