Several candidates for a third dose, also known as a booster dose, flocked to a vaccination center installed in the town hall of the 15th arrondissement, in Paris, this Wednesday, the day after Emmanuel Macron's speech.
The president announced Tuesday evening that people over 65 who were vaccinated more than six months and five weeks ago have until December 15 to achieve this booster dose, otherwise their health pass will be disabled.
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"I didn't make an appointment, I listened to the president's speech last night, and therefore I came to try my luck, and they accepted me," said Omar, 76, who was able to receive his third dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the end of the morning. Marie-Antoinette, 90, had made an appointment on Doctolib a few days earlier, without waiting for Emmanuel Macron's speech. “We had to do the third injection, my doctor had warned me,” she said.
For Noël, an administrative agent who is a volunteer in the vaccination center of the town hall of the 15th arrondissement, the situation reminds him of another: “It's like in June, after Mr. Macron's speech, we had a surplus of people in the vaccination centers, and there it is the same.
There must be about a hundred people there without an appointment.
And Friday the same, we will be armored.
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Tuesday evening, 100,000 appointments were recorded on the Doctolib site in one hour after the president's speech.