The executive wants to make it a symbolic target.
In a letter published on his Twitter account this Friday, March 5, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, urged caregivers to be vaccinated as "
quickly
" as possible, estimating that the number of health professionals who have already received a first injection was too weak.
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“
Today, nearly 40% of nursing home staff and 30% of health establishment staff are vaccinated.
This is an encouraging figure, but it is progressing too little.
This is not enough
”, we can read in the letter, the minister reiterating the alert he had launched Thursday at a press conference, alongside Jean Castex.
A solemn appeal follows, the stake of which is to empower caregivers: “
Your vaccination is a guarantee of protection.
Protection for you who deal with patients on a daily basis, and in particular patients with Covid who may be contaminants.
It is also protection for your patients and for the community.
"
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Olivier Véran concludes with his request: “
I ask you, for yourselves, your entourage, the French.
If you have not yet been vaccinated, do so quickly.
Our collective security is at stake, and our health care system's ability to hold up, as it always has, and I cannot thank you enough.
"
A hundred vaccination centers open this weekend in Île-de-France
Standing on a ridge line, the executive relies on vaccination to avoid widespread containment.
The executive recalled Thursday evening its objectives: at least 10 million first injections by mid-April, 20 million by mid-May and 30 million by the summer.
“
Our will is clear: to vaccinate as quickly as possible, using all the doses already available.
From this weekend, tens of thousands of French people will be able to have accelerated access to it in the departments most affected by the epidemic,
”Olivier Véran also tweeted, while 3.2 million people have received a first aid. injection and nearly 1.8 million a second, out of about 7 million doses available in France, according to the minister.
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In the Paris region, around a hundred vaccination centers will remain open on Saturday and Sunday, to sell "
an exceptional allocation of 51,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines
", ie all of the doses injected throughout France on certain days, announced the Regional Agency for health.
Olivier Véran's letter has already caused a reaction in the medical sphere.
Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML) and member of the Grandes Gueules on RMC, lamented that the minister made caregivers "
scapegoats
".
