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Covid: The challenge in speeding up France's vaccination drive
France has said that everyone over 75 will be able to have the coronavirus vaccine from 18 January, as part of a plan to speed up
vaccinations.
The French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, said the government had been right to prioritise the most vulnerable, but admitted that France
had lagged behind other countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.
The first vaccines were restricted to elderly care home residents, and required a signed consent form and a doctor's consultation before
they could be administered.
But the government has faced a storm of criticism after it emerged that only 500 people had been vaccinated in the first week of
the roll-out, compared to 200,000 in Germany.
Since then, firefighters, domestic carers and all medical staff over 50 have been invited to have the jab.
At one of Saint-Etienne's main teaching hospitals, the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab arrive in a bright-blue cooler bag, the size
of a generous lunch box.
The new vaccination centre here is one of hundreds being set up across the country to inoculate people more quickly.
Dr Eric Alamartine, head of the hospital's kidney unit, has an irrepressible sense of humour. Surrounded by local TV cameras as he
rolls up his arm to take the needle, he raises a laugh by getting out his iPhone and pretending to film them back.
Eric says that medical staff had lobbied the government to speed up its vaccination process from the beginning.
"We're dealing with a technocratic system which is not reactive enough, and wants to follow regulatory procedures without any risks,"
he told me. "We think it's time to take risks. We want quick decisions, not waiting for weeks for a signature."
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