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To continue to give a boost to the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, the government will use certain places, to make vaccinodromes, thanks to the deployment of the army and firefighters.
“At least 35” vaccinodromes
It is an announcement by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, to vaccinate more French people against the new coronavirus. The objective is to ” be able to use all the vaccines delivered to us from April “. To achieve this goal, the army and firefighters will have at least 35 large vaccination centers in order to be able to use all the doses of vaccines that will be delivered to France. At the beginning of March, three vaccinodromes were set up in Pas-de-Calais (Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Béthune). Several vaccination centers are located elsewhere in France, such as the Marseille velodrome or the Zénith de Toulon. The town hall of Saint-Denis recently announced the requisition of the Stade de France to vaccinate more than 2,000 people every day, starting in April.
Achieve collective immunity?
For Olivier Véran, from the month of April, it is necessary ” massively vaccinate the French “. He also wants ” 10 million primary vaccines in mid-April », Which represents the totality of vulnerable volunteers, as indicated by the government. According to him, this figure will be increasing, ” because the vaccine intake will increase “. Indeed, the objective is broken down into three figures: 10-20-30. By mid-March, 20 million people, or the entire volunteer population over 50, should be vaccinated. Two-thirds of the population over the age of 18 volunteers, which represents 30 million individuals, could be vaccinated by mid-June. For Professor Éric Caumes, the head of the infectious diseases department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, invited by France Info, collective immunity will not be affected ” by this summer “. According to the latter, this is ” strictly impossible “, Because by then,” 45 million people [soient] vaccinated “.
As a reminder, it is now possible to get vaccinated at your general practitioner, in a pharmacy or in a vaccination center.