The opening of 500,000 new meeting slots for the vaccination against Covid-19, which was to be effective on Tuesday, is finally postponed to Friday, said the Ministry of Health.
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Another slight setback for vaccination registrations.
After the false start of the launch in mid-January, postponed by one day, the second tour is experiencing "
a small delay of three days compared to what the minister had announced
", the ministry told AFP.
Olivier Véran had indeed declared last Thursday on TF1: "
From Tuesday (January 26), we will reopen 500,000 vaccination places between the middle and the end of February
".
But the drop in deliveries from Pfizer last week thwarted this agenda and the ministry explains that it wanted to "
smooth out the loss
" to "
avoid overbooking
", even if "
people take a little longer to have an appointment, rather than having to deprogram vaccinations
”.
The American laboratory having resumed its supplies this week at the planned rate, the 500,000 slots promised will be available on Friday, for injections "
in the second half of February
".
A small third (150,000) will be with the remedy of Pfizer and the majority (350,000) with that of Moderna.
The half a million affected patients will receive a second injection in March, three to four weeks later.
