The mission of "nurses (...) who play a major role (...) in the success of vaccination (...) will be further amplified from tomorrow".
This is what the Minister of Health Olivier Véran said Thursday evening, during the traditional weekly press conference on the health situation.
This new mission translates into the possibility of prescribing the vaccine themselves, now open by the High Authority for Health.
Olivier Véran had declared in recent days to have seized the independent health authority on this possibility, which was demanded in particular by the National Order of Nurses and the federation of patient associations France Assos Santé.
The opinion was "sent to the minister this afternoon" and will be "published tomorrow morning", specifies the High Authority for Health (HAS).
Until now, nurses could inject Covid vaccines but only after prescription by a doctor.
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Vaccinate at home
This new authorization "will allow them in particular to go to the most vulnerable populations and to vaccinate in the homes of the French," added Olivier Véran.
The opinion of the HAS also relates to the authorization of new professions to inject vaccines against Covid.
This has already been the case since March 12 for firefighters who have undergone specific training.
"The High Authority has expanded the list of people who can potentially inject a vaccine, with 250,000 more people," said Olivier Véran, referring to dentists or veterinarians.
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Students and young retirees called to lend a hand
The minister also called on "all health students, and all young retired health professionals to lend a hand for vaccination and in hospitals when they can".
In the immediate term, "the limiting element of our vaccination campaign" is not the number of potential vaccinators but "the deliveries of vaccines which are made to us", he admitted, however, even if "this limit is evolving in the right direction ”.
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"We will soon exceed 400,000 injections per day, then 500,000 injections per day," assured the Minister.
To date, 7 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, of which "more than 2.5 have received their second injection," he added.