The national vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is continuing: to date, 23 million French people (i.e. approximately 34% of the population) are fully vaccinated against infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The stakes are high: indeed, the Delta variant (ex-“Indian” variant) is progressing in France and a massive vaccination against Covid-19 remains the only solution to avoid a 4th wave of this epidemic – which has already lasted since start of 2020…
Good news: after physiotherapists, caregivers and paramedics, new health professions are now authorized to administer a vaccine against Covid-19. The objective: to further accelerate the pace of this national vaccination campaign.
Which professions are now authorized to vaccinate? The full list
According to a decree published in the Official Journal this Thursday, July 8, 2021the following professionals are now able to vaccinate against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus:
- Medical physicists (radiation physicists),
- medical laboratory technicians,
- State-certified nursing assistants,
- State-certified childcare assistants,
- State-certified paramedics,
- State-certified physiotherapists,
- State-certified chiropodists,
- State-certified occupational therapists,
- State-certified psychomotor therapists,
- speech therapists,
- orthoptists,
- State-certified audioprosthetists,
- dietitians,
- The opticians-eyewear manufacturers,
- Orthoprosthetists, pedorthists, ocularists, epithetists and orthopedic-orthotists,
- Dental assistants.
This list also includes “masso-kinesitherapy students who have validated their second year of training, in the presence of a doctor or nurse, and provided that they have followed specific training in the performance of this act, provided and certified by a professional trained in the administration of vaccines“.
In addition, this decree published in the OJ notes that a rapid serological test (TROD) can be carried out, just before the first injection, for people who have not been tested positive for Covid-19 during the past year. The objective: to allow people who test positive (who have therefore been infected by the virus without knowing it) to receive only one injection to be fully vaccinated.
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