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We must accelerate the pace
": Anne Hidalgo estimated Friday that the 10,000 doses of vaccine per week planned at this stage for Paris were insufficient, three days before the opening of 19 vaccination centers in the capital.
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The key is the doses, to have the number of doses corresponding to the population to be vaccinated
" against Covid-19, insisted the socialist mayor.
However in Paris, if we remain "
on a rhythm of 10,000 doses per week
", it will take us "
about eight months to get to vaccinate only
" the 170,000 people over 75 years old, she stressed during a visit to the Olympe de Gouges center (11th arrondissement), transformed into a one-week vaccination center.
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So there has to be a ramp-up.
The race against time is on, so I hope that we will have many more doses,
”she added.
Faced with the risk of the spread of variants of the coronavirus, the government announced Thursday evening an acceleration of its vaccination campaign, which will be open from Monday not only to those aged 75 and over, but also to people with risk pathologies.
In total, 800 vaccination centers will open their doors throughout the territory, including 19 in Paris: one per arrondissement, or even two for the most populous (13th, 15th and 19th).
According to the latest official data, just over 318,000 people have so far received an injection of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in France.
During a trip to Troyes on Friday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran assured that "
more than a million vaccinations
" would be carried out by the end of January and between 2.4 and 4 million by the end of February, in depending on the arrival of the remedy manufactured by AstraZeneca.
Several European countries expressed their concern on Friday after the announcement by the American laboratory Pfizer of a drop "
from next week
" in deliveries of anti-Covid-19 vaccines to Europe, time to improve its production capacities.