As of Monday, people over 75 years old, or with a medical prescription given certain pathologies, can be vaccinated if they wish. The appointment setting has been open since Friday. 4 vaccination centers are accessible, 8 from Thursday.
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After nursing home residents and staff, hospital and private health professionals, firefighters, medical transporters and home helpers, part of the general public can now have access to vaccination.
Priority audiences concerned
People over the age of 75 can therefore claim it. Also concerned are people with certain pathologies and provided with a medical prescription. Patients with pathologies exposing them to a very high risk of Covid are those suffering from cancer or malignant haematological diseases undergoing treatment with chemotherapy, those suffering from chronic kidney diseases, including people on dialysis, people with solid organ transplants or by allografts of hematopoietic stem cells.
Patients with multiple chronic pathologies, at least two organ failure, those with certain rare diseases or even those with Down’s syndrome are also concerned.
First 4 vaccination centers, then 8 from January 28
The vaccination centers are 4 in number for the moment, and remain those set up on January 21 for health professionals.
Thus, it is possible to make an appointment, for all the centers at 02 62 72 04 04, and by internet directly from the GHER in Saint-Benoît, of Félix Guyon CHU in Saint-Denis, of CHOR in Saint-Paul or CHU Sud in Saint-Pierre.
Four other vaccination centers will be open from Thursday, January 28. The authorities are soon to give its location and how to make an appointment.
0.25% of Reunionese partially vaccinated
The vaccine campaign against Covid was launched on January 15 in Reunion Island. As of January 23, 2,156 people have thus received at least one dose of the vaccine in the department, or 0.25% of the population. 27,175 doses must be delivered between January 13 and February 22.
The overseas territories began injections after France, nearly 20 days later for Reunion. In Mayotte, the first doses were received this weekend and vaccination begins this Monday, January 25. 200 to 300 people will thus be vaccinated. The department is facing a third wave of Covid, with more than 600 new cases per week.
In France, people over the age of 75 can be vaccinated since January 18.
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