Gabriel Attal, this Wednesday at the exit of the Council of Ministers – AFP
Faced with criticism of the sluggish start of the vaccination campaign in France, the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, assured, this Wednesday, that the objective to vaccinate a million people at risk against
the Covid – 20 by the end of February «se held ”.
“ We have a goal of one million vaccinated people who are at risk, in this first phase, and this goal will be met, ”he said on BFMTV.
Already more than 8. 000 people vaccinated in Italy
Gabriel Attal admitted that the start of the campaign was “very gradually” because the government “pays extreme attention to the issue of consent and medical support”. Tuesday only 190 people were vaccinated in France against 31. 000 in Germany and 8. 200 in Italy.
“We made a choice which is not the German choice which is to have the vaccine travel to people in retirement homes and not to ask people from retirement homes to move, ”explained Gabriel Attal. The government spokesperson assured that there was “no problem of shortage”. He also promised that the vaccination campaign would reach a satisfactory cruising speed “From next week” , which will allow “to vaccinate more people”.
No file on people who refuse to be vaccinated
Gabriel Attal defended
the file created to manage the vaccination campaign and grouping together personal data , which only “health insurance staff and treating physicians” can consult. And “unlike some of our neighbors, and in particular Spain, there will be no file of people who refuse to be vaccinated”, he added.
“I deeply believe that vaccination is a very big progress”, underlined the spokesperson for 31 years who plans to be vaccinated as soon as their “generation is concerned”. In France, the campaign began on Sunday for the few 310. residents of retirement homes as well as by employees of these establishments who themselves present a serious risk. The target audiences must then be enlarged in stages, the youngest and least fragile coming last.