He is worried.
The president (PS) of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis Stéphane Troussel on Thursday called for “additional doses” to speed up vaccination in this area heavily affected by Covid, including by reallocating vaccines from other regions.
"In terms of vaccination, the account is still not there, I ask for an acceleration next week", pleaded on RTL Mr. Troussel, calling to "try everything" to avoid "generalized confinement".
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Including taking vaccines in departments where the situation is not as critical?
"Obviously," replied the elected Socialist who wants "the adaptation of the measures to be taken" according to "local realities".
"In my department, we now know, after the first weeks of vaccination, that the most fragile, the most precarious, the most isolated, the most vulnerable, it is those who must be sought as a priority", a he explained.
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"We need additional doses because, with the current system, especially through digital platforms, they are not successful," he insisted.
He also deplored that Parisians come to be vaccinated in his department.
"In some vaccination centers in Seine-Saint-Denis, there are sometimes only 35% of inhabitants of the territory", he said, explaining that he suddenly opened last week "a center specifically dedicated to the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis ”.
"Focus on the regions where the virus circulates the most"
Asked about Mr. Troussel's proposal on the reallocation of vaccines, Rémi Salomon, chairman of the AP-HP medical commission, said on BFMTV that it was a “stopgap” but that we “can do it ".
“Ideally it should be everywhere.
But as we are for the moment with an insufficient number of doses, it is quite logical to say that
we will concentrate on the regions where the virus circulates the most,
”he responded.
The government announced on Wednesday the weekend containment of the city of Dunkirk, hit by an "alarming" upsurge in the Covid-19 epidemic, a few days after a similar measure taken in Nice.
Prime Minister Jean Castex will speak at the end of Thursday afternoon, when the government considers the situation "very worrying in ten departments".
