Guyana has adopted a very different vaccination strategy from that in force in mainland France.

To convince the elderly to be vaccinated and to protect them indirectly, the emphasis was placed on the vaccination of the youngest, as Europe 1 observed on the spot.

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From Monday, vaccination will be open to all people over 55 in France.

In the overseas department-region of Guyana, the situation is quite different.

There, barely more than 4% of the population received the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19, against 14% in France.

For vaccination to take off, the health authorities have therefore extended it ... to over 30s!

Because on the spot, the vaccination campaign is very different from that carried out in metropolitan France: everything has been done to allow the youngest to be vaccinated.

With the hope of generating a ripple effect of older people.

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The elderly "were not necessarily very demanding of vaccination", explains at the microphone of Europe 1 Clara de Bort, the general director of the local ARS.

According to her, it was therefore "necessary to vaccinate a little more the young people around them to protect them indirectly".

"In Guyana, very often people decide to be vaccinated when a relative has decided to do so and talks about their experience," she insists.

Thanks to the expansion of the vaccine target, Needy, 32, received his first dose of vaccine a few days ago.

"I took it as an obligation because I am in charge of fragile people," said this liberal nurse in Cayenne.

"Like many people", she says to have "asked questions" but to have taken her "responsibility".

"I was given the choice to be able to do it and to be able to protect" others, she explains.

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No choice, however, regarding the type of product injected, another local feature.

In Guyana, injections are done only with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, considered more effective in this territory against the Brazilian variant which represents 56% of contaminations.

While the circulation of the virus is progressing in Guyana because of this variant, vaccination has even become possible from the age of 18 for the inhabitants of Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock, a town on the border with Brazil and therefore very remote. risks.