Since April, vaccination was only open to pregnant women from the second trimester of pregnancy.
But no particular risk was observed in those who nevertheless received a dose of the vaccine during this period, especially when they did not yet know they were pregnant.
Also, pregnant women can be vaccinated against Covid-19 from the "first trimester" of pregnancy, Olivier Véran said on Tuesday.
Apart from three situations, "which potentially concern several hundred French people, there is no contraindication to the messenger RNA vaccine" against Covid.
This list of three medical contraindications was established, after advice from the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM), the committee on the vaccination strategy of Alain Fischer and the scientific council, explained the Minister of Health before MPs.
Three medical contraindications
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The first is “PIMS syndrome”, or pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, an “extremely rare” complication that has affected some children and adolescents following infection with the coronavirus.
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The second concerns "reactions like myocarditis, pericarditis and severe hepatitis requiring hospitalization and following a first injection of mRNA vaccine", continued the Minister.
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The last concerns people allergic to one of the components of the vaccine, PEG2000, or polyethylene glycol, a situation which "must concern about 10 cases in our country", he assured.
Neither pregnancy, "nor a history of allergy to an antibiotic or a bee sting" constitute contraindications to vaccination, added the minister.
"It is therefore on this basis that proper medical certificates can be recognized as contraindications and not on a simple medical or pharmaceutical opinion with an allergic history", he insisted.
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