Madagascar: vaccination campaign for French people living abroad
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of Tourism, Francophonie and French citizens abroad, in one of the first vaccination centers of the French Embassy in Antananarivo, the May 14, 2021 © Laure Verneau / RFI
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In Antananarivo, the French Secretary of State for Tourism, La Francophonie and French Abroad, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, was, Friday, May 14, in Madagascar.
The Minister inaugurated the vaccination center of the French Embassy there.
It is intended for French and European nationals over 55 living in Madagascar.
It is one of the first centers for French people abroad.
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With our correspondent in Antananarivo,
Laure Verneau
The vaccination center of the French Embassy is located in a tree-lined alley in the Ivandry district.
Opened on May 10, it will allow some 8,000 French and Europeans over 55 to receive a dose of the Janssen vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.
Brigitte, 59, teacher, wants to return to a normal life.
“
I was scared at the first wave,
” she says.
I did everything, being very careful.
This time, I'm very careful, but I decided to go on living and not have this fear anymore, because it was not livable.
We were really locked in our home.
We went out very little, we disinfect everything, the purchases we were going to make ...
"
6,000 doses have been sent for this phase which will last two months, and 2,000 registrations have already been taken.
A success crowned by months of work by the Chancellery.
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To read also: Covid-19: three quarters of Malagasy want to be vaccinated, according to a survey
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I did not trust the government product
"
Madagascar received its first doses of AstraZeneca on May 7, but for only 3% of its population: namely the most vulnerable, health workers or the police.
The country joined the Covax initiative late, preferring to rely on a remedy based on artemisia.
Also, getting the vaccine is a relief for Zoe, 74.
Of Franco-Malagasy nationality, she wants to be ready when the country will reopen its borders: “
I did not trust the product that the government was making and therefore I preferred to be vaccinated.
It really is relief.
"
In Madagascar, according to figures from the French Embassy, since March 2020, nearly 200 French nationals have been infected with the coronavirus and around fifteen have died from it.
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To read also: Covid-19: vaccination has started in Madagascar
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