Most of the Covid-19 vaccination centers will remain open on Saturday and Sunday in Île-de-France, where new injection sites will be added in order to sell more than 50,000 doses in two days, the authorities said. local Friday 5 March.
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Allowed by "
an exceptional allocation of 51,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines
", this operation will mobilize 105 of the 123 vaccination centers which already welcome priority audiences, said in a
press
release the regional health agency (ARS) and the prefectures of police and region.
In addition, 12 “
new dedicated centers
” will be opened in Melun, Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), Fleury-Mérogis, Palaiseau (Essonne), Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), Saint-Mandé (Val- de-Marne), Cergy, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Sannois (Val-d'Oise) and Paris (three sites).
This arrival of a "
very large volume
" of vaccines "
will allow all the centers which had set up waiting lists to recontact the people concerned today to set them up this weekend
", add the authorities, who also promise "
new niches
" available online or by phone.
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"
It is something massive
", declares to AFP the director general of the ARS Aurélien Rousseau who asked "
simultaneously to the hospitals to accelerate with the AstraZeneca vaccine
" and indicates that the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) "
intends to do 14,000 injections by Sunday
", both on caregivers and patients.
This boost "
foreshadows what we will have to do for months
" from the moment when deliveries will become massive, normally in April.
"
We will go to a scale four or five times larger than at present
" and the coming weekend "
has a dress rehearsal side
", he explains.
