Olivier Véran, January 9, 2020 in Tarbes.

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Thirty departments are facing a situation of "overbooking" in some vaccination centers, said the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, this Thursday, believing that some "have shown a lot of enthusiasm".

“It is not because you will open more centers that you will have more vaccines,” reaffirmed the Minister of Health before the Senate Law Committee.

"There are more than 900," he said Tuesday on France Inter, saying that the doses against the coronavirus must be distributed in more centers.

Reorganization after the opening of vaccination for over 75s

Accused of going too slowly by the whole of the opposition and many voices in the medical world, the government brought forward the vaccination of the over 75s in the city to January 18, which provoked a hasty mobilization for set up centers.

"And so this re-distribution of the vaccines which had been provisioned for six centers per department in a multitude of centers, can lead to (...) hiccup mechanisms (...) there are about 30 departments which have carried out what is called suddenly "overbooking", that is to say that they found themselves with a little more slots than they had doses, "explained the Minister.

According to Olivier Véran, "we have solved the problem" for "fifteen departments".

For the others, he continued, “we are going to ask these departments to keep the vaccination windows that have been opened;

at worst in critical cases, I think in some places in the Hauts-de-France region, we ask to defer from one to two weeks the vaccinations that had been organized but not to cancel anyone, and therefore to use by anticipation of just-in-time doses which should have enabled them to do their first vaccinations in February ”.

Nearly 693,000 doses of vaccine already injected

"If I may summarize, the centers which have shown great enthusiasm and which vaccinate much more than expected in January will only have vaccination in February as the booster shots (the second dose) and will therefore hardly do more. first-time vaccination in February since the increase in deliveries is not linear and occurs in stages, ”he added.

On Wednesday evening, the Directorate General of Health reported an assessment of nearly 693,000 doses of vaccine already injected out of nearly 2 million available, an increase of 200,000 bites in two days.

The authorities are forced to stall their vaccination program by providing that the very first injected dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, the most available at the moment, requires a second dose 28 days later (21 for residents of nursing homes, the first targeted by the campaign).

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