The list of priority audiences is growing.
After residents in EHPADs and health personnel, firefighters and nursing assistants over 50 will also be able to be vaccinated against Covid-19, Olivier Véran announced on RTL this Tuesday morning.
Will the teachers be next?
This is in any case what
"wishes"
Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education, invited Tuesday on Europe 1.
"I am able to understand that it is necessary to start with the elderly (and) the hospitals, but right after come the people of my ministry because they are in contact with children, adolescents"
, he underlined, then that a British variant of the virus would report a potentially greater contagiousness in young people.
"First cohort" with "the oldest people"
"The objective is to be able to start in March if possible"
, demanded the Minister of National Education, proposing
"a first cohort"
with
"the oldest people"
.
In the meantime, he congratulated himself
"that the rates of contamination"
are so far
"not particularly high
" in the teaching staff
,
welcoming the professors who
"did what was necessary"
to enforce the barrier gestures.
Jean-Michel Blanquer finally assured that he was working
"closely"
with Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, on the vaccination schedule for his staff.
Details can be provided on Thursday at the press conference on the vaccine strategy organized by Prime Minister Jean Castex.
