Two days after the opinion issued by the High Authority for Health (HAS), the Prime Minister, Jean Castex announced, this Tuesday on RTL, that the third dose of vaccine against the coronavirus will be available for residents of nursing homes from September 12-13.
“From September 12-13, restart of the systematic campaign, after obtaining consent, for the third doses (of vaccine) in nursing homes,” said the Prime Minister on RTL.
“A delay of approximately 6 months between the second and the third dose”
This date will see the “restart of the systematic campaign, after obtaining consent, for the third doses (of vaccine) in nursing homes”, the Prime Minister said on RTL. Those over 65 and people with comorbidities will be able, from September 1, to resume an appointment to have their 3rd dose, as recommended by the High Authority for Health, he added, recalling that it took “a period of approximately 6 months between the second and the third dose”.
The 3rd dose is considered necessary because “vaccine protection in some people – the most fragile, the oldest – decreases”, argued the head of government. With vaccination, “we are 8 times less likely to be infected, 11 times less likely to go to the hospital,” he said.