Vaccination against Covid-19: Castex announces the opening of five million appointments

Since Emmanuel Macron announced the extension of the health pass on July 12, many French people have rushed into the niche for a primary vaccination.

To keep pace, new meetings will soon be available, announced the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, this Wednesday noon.

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Invited on the set of 13 Hours of TF1 at the end of the Defense Council, he assured that "five million meetings" would open "within fifteen days".

The goal is to arrive at "40 million vaccinated at the end of this month" - a goal that would be reached one month in advance - and "50 million at the end of August".

He hopes for a sustained rate, up to "four million vaccinations per week" from August.

According to Matignon, the government wants to achieve “two million” injections this week and is launching “a collective challenge” to achieve eight million vaccinations over the next 15 days.

Long wait in places

This new appointment offer will not be luxury in some departments.

Since the announcements of Emmanuel Macron, the time to obtain a niche has literally exploded in places.

On July 15, for example, it took more than 35 days to have a first injection appointment in Ille-et-Vilaine and it still takes more than 23 days on this date.

On average, in France, the waiting period is 12.6 days, according to Doctolib.

Jean Castex also took advantage of his speech to announce the acceleration of the vaccination of adolescents at the start of the September school year, with a campaign organized within colleges and high schools.