“It feels like you’ve been walking around!” Pierre Cuny gets carried away. Sees red, almost. It goes without saying that he only tasted very moderately the visit of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, on Friday 12 February in Metz. “A courtesy visit,” as the mayor of Thionville calls it. A sterile visit, above all, the main axes defended by the elected official to curb a health situation that worsens considerably in the territory that has not been retained.
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On Saturday, the prefect, visiting the vaccination center of the Bel-Air hospital in Thionville, did not consider it necessary to close schools in Moselle. “The cases of variants, of which we do not know exactly the degree of virality, however multiply in our schools,” points out the elected Thionville. We are only a week away from the holidays, why not have anticipated them? “
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“This remains insufficient”
“Now we have to go! Now it is also the doctor who speaks. Pierre Cuny alludes to the vaccination campaign, “a crucial issue, even more for us”. The promise made by Olivier Véran and reaffirmed by the prefect, namely the granting of 2,000 additional vaccines for the Moselle, leaves the elected Thionvillois unsatisfied: “It is encouraging, but it remains clearly insufficient. I do not understand that we do not direct more doses to the Moselle on the grounds of a principle of equity on French territory. When there is a forest fire, we mobilize all our forces on the spot. “
Objective: 600 vaccines per day
The president of the Portes de France-Thionville agglomeration, however, withdrew excellent news from the arrival of the prefect. On Saturday, he presented him, in great detail, the future Thionville vaccination center. The two men walked through the municipal theater, next to the Jean-Burger room which housed the Covid-19 center last spring.
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In all likelihood, the commissioning of this vaccination center will take place within a fortnight: “If all the conditions are met, it will open on 1is March, says the mayor. The idea is to work, as we have always done, in close collaboration with the CHR Metz-Thionville ”.
This center, which will gradually increase in power over the coming weeks, will be able to vaccinate 600 people per day.
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