The Deputy Minister in charge of Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, assured on Monday that the pace of delivery of doses of vaccine against Covid-19 would make it possible to keep the pace promised by the government.
“You have more than 1.5 million doses delivered each week and we will pass the 2 million doses delivered each week within two weeks,” said the Minister on Radio Classique.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher assured that "yes", the commitment to vaccinate all French people who want it next summer will be kept.
"We have an increase in deliveries of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine (...) the Moderna vaccine is increasing in capacity", she detailed, adding that "the AstraZeneca vaccine, even on a plateau, is of next to 4 million deliveries per month ”.
“We are effectively able to vaccinate 30 million French people by the end of June.
We have the doses to do that, ”she said.
The Minister recalled the schedule: "10 million in mid-April, 20 million in mid-May, 30 million at the end of June (ie) two-thirds of adults, and then by the end of the summer".
"That a French person be vaccinated whenever a vaccine is available"
The day before, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran assured that the acceleration given to vaccination will continue after the mass injections this weekend.
"Whenever a vaccine is available in our territory, a French must be vaccinated, whether on Monday or Sunday, the vaccines must be offered as quickly as possible," he said. he declared after having visited two vaccination centers in Tourcoing (North).
"In another vaccination center, in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), Olivier Véran was pleased that the" exceptional effort "of the weekend made it possible to carry out 220,000 injections on Saturday" against 80 000-85,000 usually on Saturdays ”.
“585,000 French people have been vaccinated since Friday.
A new step in our battle against the virus was taken this weekend, ”Prime Minister Jean Castex said in a message posted on Twitter at the end of the afternoon.
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The LR mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi hailed "a logistical feat" with the vaccination in the metropolis of 12,800 people this weekend.
"I have the feeling that the addition of the containment and vaccination measures will lead to a drop in viral circulation sufficiently significant to no longer need to reconfine the population during the next weekends," he said. discount.
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The number of patients hospitalized in intensive care, therefore the most serious cases, climbed Sunday to the highest since the end of November, to 3,743 according to Public Health France.
The number of new cases remained high, with 21,825 in the last 24 hours.
