With 33,000 volunteers, liberal doctors will be a little more numerous to vaccinate in their practices the week of March 8, we learned Thursday, March 4 from the Ministry of Health, which indicates that 765,000 doses of AstraZeneca have been ordered .
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"For this third week of the city vaccination campaign with AstraZeneca, around 33,000 doctors have paired up with around 12,000 pharmacies, for an order volume of around 765,000 doses," the general directorate of health told AFP. (DGS).
As every week now, practitioners had until Wednesday 11:00 p.m. to come forward to a pharmacist in order to receive doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Monday.
Since February 25, they can vaccinate in their practices their patients aged 50 to 64, who have long-term illnesses, diabetes, chronic bronchitis or respiratory insufficiency, or excess weight with a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30.
The first week, they had been 28,844 doctors to volunteer, against only 19,187 the second week.
And Monday, Olivier Véran, announced that the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine would be extended to people aged 65 to 75 years with comorbidities.
That is to say two and a half million additional people.
An expansion validated Tuesday by the High Authority for Health (HAS), which also recommended that all vaccines can be administered by pharmacists, nurses and midwives, in addition to doctors, and extended the list of audiences considered as priorities.
