Assisted living facilities should get COVID-19 vaccine first
France's top well being advisory physique said on Mon it had recommended COVID-19 vaccinations should focus on retirement homes people and their staff first when doses reach the country. Haute Autorite de la Sante (HAS) advised rolling out the marketing campaign in levels and on a voluntary basis, like in lots of other countries.
President Emmanuel Macron said the other day that vaccines could commence to be administered when the end of the year in France, if approved by regulators, after expectations were raised of an instant roll-out following promising benefits from trials of different candidates. After those in assisted living facilities, amounting to around 840,000 persons in France, another phase would aim for those aged 65 and over, and some health workers, the HAS said.
Three other stages would follow, aimed at persons with underlying conditions such as for example diabetes, other uncovered professionals and adults without known other conditions. "These advice will evolve other time as we get extra data. We demand vaccination on a voluntary basis," the head of Possesses Dominique Le Guludec told reporters. The French government is due to fine detail in the approaching days how it will handle its vaccines plan. The European Union has up to now secured handles Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, CureVac, Pfizer and BioNTech in addition to Moderna.
With 1.9 billion doses expected at this stage to reach the EU, France aims to secure about 295 million doses.
