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  • From this Monday, Parisians over 75 who live at home can be vaccinated.

  • Each district will have a vaccination center which will open this Monday afternoon, but everything is above all a question of doses.

  • The state will provide Paris with 10,000 doses for these first weeks.

    This is insufficient, according to elected officials in the capital.

Starting signal.

From this Monday, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 begins in the capital.

“Vaccination must be a top priority.

Paris will be fully mobilized so that it is deployed as quickly as possible.

There is no room for hesitation, ”Anne Hidalgo had declared during the 2021 vows ceremony. The mayor of Paris was very critical of the government's action on the vaccine strategy.

Since then, his battle plan is refined and put in place.

After the first phase of vaccination in nursing homes launched in early January, Parisians over 75 years of age who live at home, as well as some people suffering from serious pathologies, will now be able to be vaccinated.

Or nearly 170,000 people.

Orders are centralized by the European Union, then distributed in proportion to the populations of the member countries.

Currently, France receives 500,000 doses per week, from the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratory and several tens of thousands from Moderna.

The State then dispatches them in the regions and cities.

In this case, 10,000 to the capital from Monday. 

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takes stock of this health operation which could quickly become congested.

A center in each arrondissement

Each district will have a vaccination center which will open this Monday afternoon.

For Paris Center (grouping of the first four arrondissements), it will be located for example in the former town hall of the 3rd arrondissement.

In the 19th arrondissement, it is at 104, the exhibition and concert hall, that the vaccinations will take place.

For the 6th and 20th arrondissements, the centers will open a little later in the week, but residents can still make an appointment at one of the other centers.

Ultimately, the most populous districts will have several centers.

Vaccination is only done by appointment.

A letter was sent to the people concerned to inform them of the methods of vaccination.

The appointment slots are accessible from this Friday afternoon on the national platform www.sante.fr and on www.doctolib.fr.

Registration is also possible via 39.75: the operators of the City of Paris call center make an appointment directly on the platform, like a medical secretary.

Services which could however be quickly saturated, while the question of the number of doses also raises questions.

Each center will open appointment slots corresponding specifically to the number of doses available to it.

“Every time there is an appointment, you need a dose in the face.

That's what's bugging, ”says

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, Anne Souyris, deputy mayor of Paris responsible for all health issues.

"The State must step up the pace"

The 19 centers which open on Monday have a theoretical capacity of 25,000 injections per week.

They will be received by the City teams on Monday morning, and distributed among the 19 centers, according to the proportion of the population over 75 years of the district concerned.

But the mayor of Paris is already putting pressure on the state.

“If they remain at the planned level of 10,000 doses per week, it will take us 7 to 8 months to vaccinate only 170,000 Parisians over 75 years old.

The State must give a big boost to the vaccination of all French people ”indicates Anne Hidalgo, in a press release.

A calculation which of course takes into account the double injection necessary to create a strong immunity.

“10,000 doses is low.

The number of doses should be tripled or quadrupled, ”continues Anne Souyris.

The district town halls are trying to organize themselves.

"We are ready," said the mayor of the 13th, Jérôme Coumet (Paris en Commun).

"We set up a vaccination center in town hall in less than two days, in addition to the one located at 15 rue Charles Bertheau", he notes.

"We row with our little arms without excessive outside help"

The opposition deplores a "lack of funding for the city," said Rachida Dati (LR).

The mayor of the 7th arrondissement declared to open “autonomously” and with his “budget”, a vaccination center in the 7th district for vaccination from Monday.

Geoffroy Boulard (LR) in the 17th will have three centers on January 25 throughout its territory.

Philippe Goujon (LR), mayor of the 15th arrondissement will have two centers.

For the 21,000 people concerned in his district of 240,000 inhabitants, he will receive 1,200 doses Monday morning.

“At this rate, it would take a year to vaccinate those over 75.

It's dramatic.

And we row with our little arms without excessive outside help, ”he laments to

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"The central town hall helps with the telephone platform and the transfer of doses but after that it is up to us to organize everything with our budget: staff, security, refrigerators", he explains, announcing even before the start of the operation a "dose shortage".

And to add: “We will be blocked very quickly.

I hope it will gain momentum because people are already causing scandals at the town hall ”.

Start of the campaign in this arrondissement, Monday at 3 p.m.

For its part, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) must decide before the end of January to say whether or not it authorizes the marketing of the third vaccine, that of AstraZeneca.

Dose deliveries should then intensify even more massively.

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