Top start for the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, this Wednesday, January 6. 1950 doses were delivered to the Bastia hospital center, and several health personnel from the establishment have already received their first injection.
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It was under escort of the police and in a truck – of a substantial size given the smallness of the package – that the first vaccines against Covid-19 arrived in Corsica, this Wednesday, January 6.
In all, 1950 doses, produced by the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratories and distributed in nearly 400 vials, were received by the pharmaceutical teams at the Bastia hospital center, shortly before 11 a.m.
The package containing the anti-Covid-19 vaccines, delivered under escort of the gendarmerie to the Bastia hospital center on January 6.
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© Axelle Bouschon / FTV
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They were immediately transported to a specific freezer at -80 °, the temperature necessary for the correct storage of the solution. Half of the doses – 975 vaccines – were finally sent in the early afternoon to Ajaccio hospital, which has a freezer of the same ilk.
The two island public hospitals will distribute vaccines to priority recipients in the coming weeks (establishments of the Bastia territorial hospital group, and residents of nursing homes or long-term care units, in particular). With one condition: once taken out of the freezers, the solution must be administered within five days.
It is in this freezer, at the Bastia hospital, that half of the Covid-19 vaccines delivered this Wednesday, January 6 are kept. The other half is in a freezer similar to the Ajaccio hospital center.
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© Axelle Bouschon / FTV
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The first injections administered in the afternoon
After checking that the cold chain was not broken during transport, the first vaccinations began at 3 p.m. And it was staff from the Bastia hospital center, followed by residents of the Toga nursing home, who started the ball of injections.
In total, just over sixty health facility staff (out of the 600 identified as “priority”, that is to say over 50 years old) have so far requested to be vaccinated. At the Toga nursing home, 29 residents – out of 59 – have given their consent, directly or through their families.
The vaccination campaign in the nursing home in Toga began this Wednesday, January 6.
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© Anne-Marie Leccia / FTV
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Not all can be vaccinated this Wednesday, but will be in the coming days, assure the health authorities. Moreover, in addition to the island’s public hospitals, several private structures have also taken steps to be delivered in the near future with vaccines.
The fact remains that for non-priority populations wishing to be vaccinated, it will still be necessary to wait. The government’s strategy, detailed on December 16 by Prime Minister Jean Castex, therefore provides for expanded vaccination to the entire French population in spring 2021.
Without guarantee, however, that a sufficient number of French people agree to be vaccinated. Faced with Covid-19, the group immunity threshold [qui désigne le moment à partir duquel un pourcentage suffisant d’individus dans une population est immunisé contre une maladie, en raison de l’administration d’un vaccin, ou après développement et guérison de l’infection] is estimated at 60%.
Or, according to an Odoxa-Backbone survey published on January 3, nearly 6 in 10 French people (58%) do not want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Eight points more than last month, and a serious thorn in the side of the government.
The vaccine was postponed for a while
The island vaccination campaign got off to a good start on Wednesday. But until a few hours before their delivery, the arrival of the doses on the Isle of Beauty during the day was more than uncertain.
The services of the Bastia hospital center thus recount having received an email from Public Health France the day before at the end of the day indicating that due to logistical constraints, the vaccines would only land on January 7. Date potentially even postponed to January 11, according to the delivery traces updated on the night of January 5 to 6.
The blur finally lifted around 9am. The team in charge of receiving the package was then informed that the vaccines, after having passed through Germany, had reached Marseille airport, and that the take-off of the plane in the direction of Bastia could have been delayed by a few minutes. to ensure their loading.
A somewhat exceptional care, we admit at the Bastia hospital center, for a health crisis which is no less.
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