Olivier Véran, March 11, 2021 in Paris.

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Responding this Tuesday to criticism from the member for Reunion, Nadia Ramassamy, before the Assembly, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, agreed that the health situation was "extremely tense" on the island where it is still necessary to accelerate the vaccination.

“Across France, 9.2% of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine, but we are far from this average in overseas territories: 3.5% in Reunion, around 29,000 people vaccinated , 2.6% in Guyana and only 1.7% in Guadeloupe to name a few.

Why are we once again so far behind France?

“Asked MP LR.

Eight vaccination centers on the island

"You are right, the situation is extremely tense in certain overseas territories, in particular the situation in Réunion," replied Olivier Véran.

"You quoted the figure of 29,749 vaccinations carried out, it's true, it is not sufficient, I am giving you another figure, it is the 53,000 Pfizer doses that were sent to Reunion, the 10,500 additional doses sent. this week, the 7,000 additional doses that are sent next week, and the 35,000 doses that will be sent in the first half of April, and all the additional deliveries that we will make to protect the population, ”he replied.

Reunion Island has about 860,000 inhabitants.

"We must speed up vaccination, and to speed up vaccination, we have opened eight vaccination centers on the island" and "we go to people, especially when they are isolated, far from vaccination centers," he said. -he explains.

Age lowered to 60

“We have also lowered the age of vaccine recipients, (…) it will be 70 years old in mainland France as of Saturday.

In Reunion, he is 60 years old, given the average age of the population, and sometimes the difficulties encountered in going to concretize this vaccination gesture ”, he added.

The minister also recalled that Reunion "has shown exemplary solidarity since day 1 with respect to its neighbor Mayotte, whose health situation was extremely worrying".

According to the island's ARS, the figures for the last seven days show a slight increase in the number of cases with a weekly incidence rate that remains above the threshold of 100,000 / 100,000 inhabitants.

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