You are a VTC driver, cashier, teacher, can you now claim vaccination at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), whatever your age?
This is what France Inter says this Thursday noon, ensuring that it has had confirmation from the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
This one is less affirmative with the Parisian.
According to France Inter, the teams mobilized on the largest French vaccinodrome suffer "8 to 10% of appointment cancellations" and "do not manage to fill all the slots" while the center "has enough doses ".
It is within this framework that it is now possible to reach people belonging to one of these priority professional categories (*) and aged under 55, the minimum threshold set for the moment.
They will receive an RNA message vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna), AstraZeneca and Janssen were reserved for people aged 55 and over.
"This is not a general instruction"
“When there are cancellations and not to waste doses, priority professions can get an appointment at the Stade de France [whatever their age, Editor's note]. But this is not a general instruction, ”insists the department of Seine-Saint-Denis joined by Le Parisien. Clearly, those over 55 remain priority if there are two requests for a single possible injection. And those under 55 can - officially - be vaccinated on this contingent of 8 to 10% of appointments finally available.
“The criteria set by the government and in particular the vaccine targets are obviously respected.
However, it may happen that flexibility, without any general scope, can be implemented at the end of the day, so that no dose of vaccine is lost, from day to day ", also insists the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis in a press release sent this Thursday at the beginning of the afternoon.
An interlocutor at the Ministry of Health assures that he is not aware of a broader authorization, while the Regional Health Agency has not yet answered our questions.
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On social networks, messages have been multiplying for several days calling on the government to review the eligibility criteria for the vaccine as there are many unfilled slots in some centers, in particular at the Stade de France vaccinodrome.
But this does not necessarily mean that doses remain unused, the center being able to call on people without going through reservations on the Internet.
A telephone number for the inhabitants of the department is available to make an appointment from Monday to Saturday, from 9 am to 6.30 pm: 01 43 93 78 77.
(*) The professions concerned:
Teachers from schools, colleges, high schools;
Specialized regional nursery school officers (ATSEM);
Agents in contact with students in school, college, high school.
Support persons for students with disabilities (AESH);
Early childhood professionals (including childminders);
Youth legal protection professionals and child protection professionals;
Emergency accommodation professionals;
National and municipal police;
The gendarmes;
Prison supervisors;
Customs officers in the surveillance branch;
Vehicle drivers;
Bus, ferry, river shuttle drivers;
Short-haul drivers and delivery men;
Road drivers;
Taxi drivers;
VTC drivers;
Public transport controllers;
Maintenance workers;
Cleaning agents;
Waste collection agents;
Waste sorting center agents;
Guard and security officers;
Food shops;
Cashiers;
Self-service employees;
Sellers of food products including butchers, pork butchers, caterers, bakers, pastry chefs (business leaders included);
Funeral directors;
Unskilled workers in the food industry;
Slaughterhouse employees;
Employees of meat processing companies.