Covid-19 in Guadeloupe: caregivers will have access to vaccines without messenger RNA

A first response to the discontent?

The government is committed to providing vaccines against Covid-19 without messenger RNA to caregivers in Guadeloupe who so desire, responding to one of the requests made by those contesting the vaccine obligation, the minister said on Tuesday. from Overseas Territories, Sébastien Lecornu.

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With caregivers, "we are also in a social dialogue between the employer, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity, and employees to find solutions."

Thus "we committed last night to find other types of vaccines" for those who refuse messenger RNA vaccines, he said on France 2. Until now, the vaccines available in Guadeloupe were "essentially "Those of Pfizer / BioNtech, the French overseas ministry told AFP.

Support in professional retraining

"For those who refuse to be vaccinated and prefer to abandon their quality of caregivers and are already asking for professional retraining, we will support them and there we will need the regional council, so Ary Chalus (president of the regional council of Guadeloupe, Editor's note) will be mobilized on these subjects, ”added Sébastien Lecornu.

The protest against the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters, which began on November 15, has turned into a social crisis punctuated by violence in Guadeloupe, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line according to INSEE.

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This Monday, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the creation of a "forum for dialogue" in order to "convince and support individually, humanely", the professionals concerned by the vaccine obligation, in an attempt to calm the conflagration .

For the Minister of Overseas, "there would be something scandalous in not applying the law of the Republic on the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters in Guadeloupe".

According to him, 87% of caregivers and 43% of firefighters are vaccinated.