Paris (AFP)
Île-de-France will finally be able to continue its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 "without postponing the first injection appointment", announced on Monday the regional health agency (ARS) of the region, which indicated that new slots would be opened on Tuesday.
"The Île-de-France regional health agency confirms the trajectory of the vaccination campaign in the coming weeks, which will lead to more than 100,000 first injections and more than 200,000 second injections in February," she wrote in a press release stating "the mobilization of 20,000 doses of Moderna vaccine".
The ARS announced Thursday to plan "the delay of 15,000 to 20,000 appointments" fixed the week of February 8 to allow "to ensure the entirety" of some 200,000 second injections expected in February, while maintaining "a sustained pace "for the first doses, with 127,000 inoculations.
Hauts-de-France and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté had also announced postponements.
In addition, for the week of February 15, "new vaccination slots will be opened on approved platforms (Doctolib, KelDoc, Maiia), during the day of February 2", indicates the ARS, which intends to ensure "around 10,000 first injections "that week.
The following week, "part of these first injection capacities will be used to initiate operations + to go towards + towards priority populations who could not go to ambulatory centers", adds the agency.
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