AT Paris, the health authorities have been aware since the middle of the week that thousands of doses were going to arrive. The goal? To be able to massively vaccinate Parisians on Saturday and Sunday. An operation not easy to organize, especially in terms of logistics, and in such a short time. Anne Souyris, deputy (EELV) in charge of public health, described as a “challenge” the distribution of more than 11,000 doses allocated to the City of Paris for this massive vaccination operation against Covid-19.
The additional vaccines announced Thursday evening by the government are being distributed in the 20 Parisian centers “roughly in proportion to the demographics, in particular the elderly, but also taking into account the comorbidities and the personnel available”, explained Friday March 5 Anne Souyris at Agence France-Presse.
More than 11,000 doses distributed in 20 centers
The mayor of Paris launched Thursday evening a call for volunteers among its employees and with liberal doctors and nurses to take charge of this massive operation. Friday evening, 567 agents had responded, of which 300 will be mobilized over the weekend.
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Installed in district town halls, medical centers or cultural places, the 20 centers will each have at least “3 doctors, 3 nurses and 4 or 5 administrative staff,” said Anne Souyris.“It was a challenge to distribute between 11,000 and 12,000 doses over the weekend, although we have been aware since Wednesday that we are going to have doses, and since last night that we are going to have more than 11. 000 ”, all from the Pfizer laboratory, underlines the elected representative. To this total are added 2,000 doses provided to two centers of the Paris fire brigade (BSPP), said the first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire to Agence France-Presse.
30,000 Parisians received the two doses of the vaccine
Despite the scale of the challenge, Anne Souyris does not believe “at all in the hiccups and the remaining doses, because we have plenty of people on the waiting list. There may be disappointments, I’m more afraid of that than the other way around ”.
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If the City considers itself “capable of being able to arm (its) centers in 24 hours”, it is “that at the beginning, we had much more important specifications, we were promised many more doses. At the beginning of January, we were talking about 25,000 doses per week and finally we had 10,000 maximum, ”she says.
So far, around 20,000 Parisians have received the first dose and 30,000 both doses to be vaccinated, according to the same source. To give a boost to the national vaccination campaign, the government announced Thursday the allocation of a total of 135,000 new doses to 23 priority departments.
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