The Elysee thinks that this vaccine, without messenger RNA, can be an answer to the resistance to vaccination that affects the overseas departments and communities.
Le Monde
Emmanuel Macron announced, Thursday, January 27, that the ultramarine territories will receive the Novavax vaccine, without a messenger, which can be an answer to the resistance to vaccination that affects certain departments.
Emmanuel Macron wanted to talk in the afternoon in videoconferencing with elected representatives of the overseas departments and communities, currently in a state of health, in the presence of the overseas ministers, Sébastien Lecornu , and health Olivier Véran.
Seven departments and overseas communities are in a state of health emergency: the meeting, the Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Mayotte, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy.
“The Chairman wanted to ensure the elected officials that the ultramarine territories will be prioritized for the shipments of the Novavax which is a vaccine without a messenger RNA and who can provide answers in departments where vaccination was able to progress more slowly than elsewhere. , assured the Elysee. “The Chairman was able to specify things about the vaccinal pass,” added the Elysee:
“If the meeting and Mayotte entered the vaccinal pass scheme from January 24 (…), the Caribbean and Guyana, a consultation takes place. It is our pragmatic approach to adapting differentiation that is there. Implementation and prefects In the coming days, after consultations, will indicate the calendar in which the vaccinal pass will be applied in these departments and communities “.
Reinforcements of sanitary staff
National reinforcements are already present in the overseas departments and communities, with 90 health workers in Martinique, eight at the meeting, six in Saint-Martin and 50 in Mayotte. The President also “guaranteed elected officials that the evolution of the situation could lead to new reinforcements”, according to the same source. The Elysee adds that “sanitary evacuations are maintained there too and an” evasan “(sanitary evacuation) is in preparation since Martinique to hospitals of New Aquitaine”.
In addition, “A mission of the armies’ health deploys, from tonight, to the meeting to see how it will be effective to strengthen the hospital services”.
To deal with the voltage generated at the hospital by the health crisis, “we asked for the reinforcement of a dozen staff from the sanitary reserve, we did not have an answer,” commented at The release of the Huguette Bello meeting, presidentive left of the regional council and support of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Even though “we did not expect great advertisements, I’m extremely disappointed,” she added.
The hospital services of the meeting are under severe tension when this island is swept away by the Omicron surf, with the highest incidence rate of France.