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Covid-19: how French people of all ages will be able to get vaccinated from May 12

2021-05-07T16:59:44.445Z


Emmanuel Macron announced the opening of vaccination to all age groups, as long as there are doses left. Le Figaro deciphers the process put in place from May 12.


The inauguration this Thursday, May 6 of the first major Paris vaccine site, Porte de Versailles, allowed Emmanuel Macron to announce a new opening of the vaccine campaign, from next week.

All French people, "

without age limit

", will be able to make an appointment if there are "

doses available

" in the surrounding vaccination centers, explained the head of state.

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The Doctolib platform, on which most of the time slots are reserved, specifies the terms and conditions that will apply.

Thus, "

during the day of Wednesday, May 12, all French adults will be able to go to Doctolib

" to make an appointment, depending on the doses which have not found a taker.

"

It will no longer be enough to check that you come from a priority profession or that you have a comorbidity, but only to indicate that you wish to make an appointment within the following 24 hours

", explains Stanislas. Niox-Château, founder of Doctolib.

About fifty vaccination centers in France will be able to offer these express appointments, which can only be displayed from one day to the next.

What is displayed, for the moment, when making an appointment on Doctolib.

As of Wednesday, May 12, a category for appointments within 24 hours could be displayed.

Doctissimo

But beware of the risk of saturation. If the AstraZeneca vaccination should not be a problem, its rate of use being "

only

" 75.57%, the Pfizer vaccine, reserved for under 55 years, reaches a threshold of 94.42%. "

The centers vaccinate with Pfizer almost just in time

," says Stanislas Niox-Château. The opening to all age groups on the remaining doses, which should represent "

thousands of additional daily appointments

", could increase this rate, despite the increase in deliveries.

In addition, all people over 50 will be able to be vaccinated from May 10, instead of the 15 as planned so far, announced the President of the Republic. From Friday, Doctolib will offer appointments to this age group, which would represent three million potentially vaccinated, for a first injection on Monday. "

It's a good way to speed up the campaign

", judged the founder of the platform, who recalls that every day for three days, more than 300,000 French people have made an appointment on Doctolib.

Source: lefigaro

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