It took the intervention of Emmanuel Macron to give a real boost to vaccination!
A few minutes after the speech of the President of the Republic, this Monday, the Doctolib site displayed a virtual queue, explaining that Internet users were "numerous to try to make an appointment".
From 600,000 reservations available before Emmanuel Macron's intervention, the Vite ma dose site, which allows you to find vaccination slots quickly, showed after a little more than 100,000 available reservations, its founder, Guillaume Rozier noted on Twitter. .
“Over 13,000 users every minute trying to find an appointment,” he also added later.
600,000 vaccination slots are available for reservation on Vite Ma Dose!
https://t.co/pU6W6UUBpa @ViteMaDose_off
- GRZ (@GuillaumeRozier) July 12, 2021
"20,000 appointments taken every minute at the moment," revealed Doctolib, one of the main platforms for making vaccination appointments, a few minutes after reaching 17,000 appointments per minute.
Several photos posted on social networks showed waiting times of several tens of minutes this Monday evening.
The other sites allowing to make an appointment to be vaccinated like Maiia or Keldoc were also inaccessible, this Monday, a few minutes after the intervention of Emmanuel Macron.
🔴 New record: 20,000 appointments taken every minute at the moment on Doctolib # Macron20h #VaccinationCovid https://t.co/1fCvSe1KSi
- Doctolib (@doctolib) July 12, 2021
The site is more than saturated!
🤦😅 bravo @EmmanuelMacron @olivierveran @doctolib pic.twitter.com/RLFVfnLgAH
- matisse G (@ matisseG4) July 12, 2021
Emmanuel Macron announced, during his speech, the extension of the health pass and the end of the reimbursement of PCR tests in the fall.
Until then reserved for large events of more than 1,000 people and nightclubs, the threshold will increase to 50 people from July 21.
The health pass will be compulsory to go to "places of leisure and culture", from July 21, and to go to the bar, restaurant, shopping center, to take the train and plane from the beginning of the month. August.
