Vaccination center temporarily opens floodgates amid confusion

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": a temporary tolerance on the eligibility criteria caused an influx of people and sowed confusion, Thursday, at the vaccinodrome in Grenoble.

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In front of this center opened by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region at the Alpexpo convention center and managed by the Grenoble University Hospital, some 300 people of all ages lined up in the rain in the afternoon, noted a journalist from the 'AFP. “

Laughed Élise, a 20-year-old student, leaving the premises. Warned by her nursing mother of a tolerance on the eligibility criteria, the young woman said to have gone "

" to the vaccinodrome, where she had to wait two hours to receive her injection. She has an appointment on June 1 for the second. Her cousin, warned, left Lyon by car to benefit, like her, from an improvised vaccination. “

", Confirmed to AFP an administrative manager of the center,"

. The over 18s, with or without a prescription, have been. “

”added the manager. “

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The management of the CHU recognized the existence of a tolerance, Thursday morning, "

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," she told AFP. Information about this temporary tolerance, however, circulated quickly and caused this influx, reported by the regional daily Le Dauphiné Libéré. "

", indicated in the afternoon Thomas, 26, alerted by social networks. The Alpexpo center has a capacity of 2,600 injections per day with Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.