More than 5,000 vaccinations were carried out this Tuesday in France, according to figures stopped at 5 p.m., communicated by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on Twitter.
According to the minister, these vaccinations took place in about thirty hospitals.
Wednesday, "
it is a hundred hospitals that will have been delivered in doses,
" he said.
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Among those vaccinated is Professor Alain Fischer, Chairman of the Vaccine Strategy Steering Committee.
"
Vaccinated against Covid-19,
" he wrote in a first tweet published Tuesday evening.
The executive has been widely criticized for its slowness in deploying the vaccination strategy.
"
The cruising speed of vaccination in France will join that of our neighbors in the coming days,
" yet assured the Minister of Health on RTL on Tuesday morning.
"
We exceeded 2,000 vaccinations yesterday (...) we are going to be on an exponential curve
", he insisted, while Prime Minister Jean Castex denounced "
sterile controversies which have never saved any life
".
A health defense council will be held Wednesday morning on the eve of a press conference by the head of government on the vaccination strategy.