The government is committed to providing vaccines against Covid-19 without messenger RNA to caregivers in Guadeloupe who so desire, responding to one of the requests made by those contesting the vaccination obligation, said Tuesday, November 23, the Minister of Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu.
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The protest against the vaccination obligation for caregivers and firefighters started on November 15 has turned into a social crisis punctuated by violence in Guadeloupe, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line according to INSEE. With caregivers, "
we are also in a social dialogue between the employer, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity, and its employees to find solutions
", so "
we committed last night to find other types. of vaccines
”for those who refuse messenger RNA vaccines, said Sébastien Lecornu on
France 2
.
The vaccines available so far in Guadeloupe were "
mainly vaccines
" Pfizer / BioNtech, said the Ministry of Overseas AFP.
"
For those who refuse to be vaccinated and prefer to abandon their quality of caregivers and are already asking for professional retraining, we will support them and there we will need the regional council, so Ary Chalus
(president of the regional council of Guadeloupe, Editor's note)
will be mobilized on these subjects,
”added Sébastien Lecornu.
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On Monday, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the creation of a "
forum for dialogue
" in order to "
convince and support individually, humanely
", the professionals concerned by the vaccination obligation, in an attempt to calm the conflagration.
For the Minister of Overseas, "
there would be something scandalous in not applying the law of the Republic on the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters in Guadeloupe
".
According to him, 87% of caregivers and 43% of firefighters are vaccinated.