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Covid-19: in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, one month to vaccinate all adults

2021-01-13T03:19:41.730Z


The prefect of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Thierry Devimeux announced on Tuesday January 12 that a general vaccination campaign against Covid-19 will take place from mid-February to mid-March 2021 and will allow all adult volunteers of the archipelago to receive the two necessary doses. The State representative specified that 10,000 doses have been ordered from the Moderna laboratory, "allowing all


The prefect of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Thierry Devimeux announced on Tuesday January 12 that a general vaccination campaign against Covid-19 will take place from mid-February to mid-March 2021 and will allow all adult volunteers of the archipelago to receive the two necessary doses.

The State representative specified that 10,000 doses have been ordered from the Moderna laboratory,

"allowing all adults in the archipelago to be vaccinated"

.

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Thierry Devimeux stressed preferring to wait for the availability of the vaccine from the American firm, authorized in France since the beginning of the week, because “it is easier to manage, it can be stored at -20 degrees”.

Indeed, the archipelago does not have a “super-freezer” at -70 degrees required by the first vaccine available, that of Pfizer-BioNtech.

The authorities plan to charter a direct flight from Paris, in small freezers, to avoid breaking the cold chain, and quickly deliver the doses to the archipelago.

The local vaccination campaign will take place in two stages.

During a first phase, priority will be given to vaccinating on site

"600 to 800 fragile people, residents of retirement homes and service residences, as well as disabled people, then the health personnel who accompany them."

Once the priority public is vaccinated, the authorities will open the vaccination to the entire population of the archipelago.

Two vaccination centers will be installed in the village halls of the municipalities of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

As during the vaccination against the H1N1 virus in 2009, the authorities will ask general practitioners and nurses, on a voluntary basis, to carry out the injections.

Source: lefigaro

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