He came to prepare the ground before the big press conference this Thursday at 6 p.m.
At the end of the Defense Council and the first Council of Ministers of the year, the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, took stock of the future opening of vaccination centers in France.
"We will open 300 vaccination centers next week and 500 the following week, in addition to hospitals," the government spokesman announced on Wednesday.
A way of countering the opposition which evokes the "fiasco" of the strategy of the executive.
Have 5 to 6 centers per department
“We are opening 100 centers for the city.
This is just the start: we will open 300 next week and 500 the following week for people over 75, in the general population, ”said the government representative at the end of the first Council. ministers of the year.
"The President of the Republic has indicated 500 to 600 centers in the coming weeks, that is to say 5 to 6 per department", he recalled.
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Before adding that, "the number of hospitals which allow caregivers to be vaccinated has been multiplied by three this Wednesday morning," added Gabriel Attal.
At the same time, he confirmed that France will have, this Wednesday evening, a total of one million doses ”and would receive“ 500,000 additional doses per week of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine ”.
The other announcements for the Prime Minister this Thursday at 6 p.m.
To which is added the vaccine from the American laboratory Moderna, validated on Wednesday by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
"The High Authority for Health will deliver its opinion very quickly, which will also allow us to be supplied for this vaccine at a rate of 200,000 doses over the first month, then 500,000 doses per month," added the spokesperson.
On the other hand, many local elected officials, as in the spring, denounce the shortcomings of the State which is, in their eyes, too centralized.
They offer their services to accelerate this campaign by providing premises.
Regarding the reopening or on the contrary the extension of the closure of culture rooms, ski resorts or restaurants, the former spokesperson LREM preferred not to comment referring to the big press conference scheduled, this Thursday, at 6 p.m., by Prime Minister Jean Castex.
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And Gabriel Attal to warn, however: "the objective of the government is to protect the French and to take difficult measures when they are necessary to do so", he concluded.