Jean Castex deplored Thursday the drop in the number of first doses of vaccine injected each day, urging to “do much better”, during a trip to the Landes where a “reinforced action plan” will be deployed due to a resurgence of the Covid epidemic.
“We are vaccinating 200,000 people per day” by first injection, “it is too little”, regretted the Prime Minister. “We did a lot better, we have to do a lot better,” he added from Mont-de-Marsan, “solemnly” calling on caregivers to be vaccinated.
The majority Delta variant in the Landes
The Landes are “the only department where we are seeing an increase in the epidemic”, “the only department in France to be passed above the alert threshold of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants,” said the spokesperson. word of the government Gabriel Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.
“The Delta variant”, identified for the first time in India in April, “represents 70% of the positive cases detected in this same department” where the incidence rate has increased “in the order of 10% over one week. “, He argued.