Operation all on deck.
This weekend, members of the government were instructed to go into the field to give effect to the executive's promise to speed up the vaccination campaign.
This Saturday, Jean Castex and Olivier Véran will go to the departmental fire and rescue school of Fleury-Mérogis in Essonne.
The firefighters built in 24 hours an ephemeral vaccination center with 15 boxes to accommodate 1,800 people over two days.
The next day, the Minister of Health will go to Tourcoing (North) with the elected representative of the area, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
The two men should also travel to Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Pas-de-Calais, hit hard by the epidemic.
It is the only department to have been subjected to a new containment every Saturday and Sunday.
In our columns, the mayor of the port city Frédéric Cuvillier confided his “incomprehension” in front of this “sanction confinement”.
To pass the pill, the Minister of Health will go back on the 10,000 doses of additional vaccines promised for this territory.
The "first cop in France" will ensure compliance with the rules for limiting travel.
For her part, the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly is expected in the morning of Sunday at the military hospital of Bégin (Val-de-Marne).
Four military hospitals will also be open to the public.
A "flash sale" made in haste
“This is not com, we assure Matignon.
These trips show that the State, and not just caregivers, is fully mobilized.
We are not going to let vaccine stocks pile up in hospital fridges.
It's a race against time that is underway.
»400,000 doses of AstraZeneca, not used, will be redistributed according to the new rules (people over 50 with co-morbidities can now benefit from it).
The executive has embarked on an offensive to redress the image of the most unloved of licensed vaccines.
"This weekend will be historic in terms of vaccinations carried out", predicts a relative of Emmanuel Macron.
Smaller quantities of Pfizer vials will also be available.
“It's a flash sale made in haste, grumbled a member of the prefectural body responsible for finding establishments welcoming the public.
We were given last minute instructions to open vaccination centers.
Momentum is built over time… ”.
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The administrations are summoned to hasten the pace, the prefects to go into the field.
"In Ile-de-France, the centers mobilized will have 50,000 doses for the vaccination of people over 75 years old, especially those who had registered on the waiting lists", promises on Twitter Aurélien Rousseau, the director general of ARS Ile-de-France.
A boost that remains to be seen in the long term.
