Will France keep its objectives?
Jean Castex believes in it!
The Prime Minister said on Saturday that he hoped to exceed the target of 10 million people vaccinated against Covid-19 by April 15, while deploring that “the labs” were doing “some misery in meeting delivery deadlines”.
"We will have a heavy challenge in April because we will have a lot of vaccines," said the Prime Minister on the occasion of a visit to a vaccination center in Saint-Maixent-L'Ecole (Deux-Sèvres) , before going to the National School of active non-commissioned officers which trains non-commissioned officers of the Army.
“We set the goal of 10 million vaccinations by April 15 and I do not despair that we exceed it.
But we have to be careful because the labs do us some trouble in respecting delivery deadlines.
We have to adapt, ”he continued, while AstraZeneca has just announced further delays.
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The day before, Jean Castex had admitted that the hospital situation was "extremely tense in Ile-de-France" because of the increase in the number of people in intensive care, and estimated that it was necessary "to be ready at any time to take additional measures ”.
For now, the executive has ruled out the reconfinement on weekends or full in Ile-de-France.
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The government has already announced significant transfers of Covid-19 patients from Ile-de-France from which three have already been evacuated to other regions, while continuing to accelerate vaccination.
On Friday, the director general of the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Martin Hirsch, said that there was "between 20 and 30% of deprogramming" of non-urgent activities to make room for patients Covid, adding: "It is played in bed close".
France passed the barrier of 90,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Friday since it began a year ago.
