They were among the most absent from the vaccination campaign.
Some teachers and police officers will now be able to quickly benefit from doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
This Thursday, Jean Castex indeed announced that the vaccination of certain professionals over 55, considered to be more exposed, will be facilitated.
"Slots will be open from this weekend," said the Prime Minister during a trip to a vaccination center.
This measure will concern in detail: teachers in schools, colleges, and high schools, AESH (accompanying persons with disabilities), ATSEM (regional officers specializing in nursery schools), early childhood professionals, national police officers and municipal officials, gendarmes and prison administration supervisors.
This opening therefore concerns a little more than 430,000 professionals according to Matignon.
Time slots will be reserved for them for at least 15 days, including weekends.
Proof of eligibility to present
In practice,
the professionals concerned by this rapid vaccination circuit will receive a message from their ministry or supervisory authority, accompanied by the list of centers concerned, specifies Matignon.
They can therefore go to one of the reserved slots, and be vaccinated on presentation of proof of eligibility.
(professional card for civil servants, sworn statement and pay slip for employees).
No territory will benefit from the implementation of this mechanism: “These priorities, set by the State, must be the same everywhere on the national territory.
There can therefore be no vaccine policy with variable geometry according to the municipalities ", had already indicated Matignon, who boasts of a campaign advancing" at a very good pace "with more than 10 million people already vaccinated.
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Since March, many teachers, exposed to the risk of contamination, and unions had asked that the vaccination be opened more quickly.
Since then, the figures and deadlines had varied in recent weeks according to the ministers who announced the vaccination of teachers.
On April 1, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran recalled that several tens of thousands of them could be vaccinated from the end of April.
He had not set an age limit at the time.
