Vaccinodrome at Stade de France
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The Stade de France throughout the month of April will vaccinate 10,000 people per week.
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By: Sylvie Koffi
6 mins
The Stade de France, an emblematic place, is on the front line for mass vaccination against Covid-19.
Report during the preparations, a few days before the kick-off.
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Used to sporting and cultural events, the Stade de France is ready to vaccinate 10,000 people six days a week. Three spaces, three lounges, have been reserved outside the lawn which remains the preserve of the matches.
In the basement, the Chorum lounge and its 2,000 m2 awaits this new audience.
“
There are 40 tents set up.
At start-up, there will be 20 active,
”explains Loïc Durosselle, the programming director.
The idea is to ramp up with 40 vaccination points in the end.
Everything has changed here, the space has been completely redesigned
From Gate C, the public will follow a whole route completely signposted.
“
The action is done free of charge, the spaces are not valued, the staff of the Stadium work for free.
We try to make our contribution and it is quite normal that we can do it, it is the least of things
”, delighted Loïc Durosselle who had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
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It's been over a year since we offered our services,
he said,
to fight at our level and our scale against the health crisis.
We donated 10,000 FFP2 masks more than a year ago to the State services, which had none at the time.
We proposed to be a screening center and then a vaccination center.
The vaccine strategy has returned to this type of infrastructure.
We are delighted to be able to make our civic contribution and to give a little help to this public which comes to the usual stage.
This center is organized in a hurry, but these are things that we are used to doing.
"
We have to work twice as hard to receive nearly 2,000 people a day.
Safety first: passage controls are the same as for watching a match.
“
It remains a stadium, it remains a sensitive place.
You will have the same security checks: identity, pat-down, etc.
», Insists Loïc Durosselle.
On the first floor of the Colonnade lounge, a call platform completes the system.
Its mission is to manage the appointments.
Between the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis and those of Île-de-France, there will be an equitable distribution of the 10,000 doses of vaccines.
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50% of the doses will be opened on Doctolib, so regardless of where you live, we can make an appointment in the stadium provided that the criteria established by the government are met.
The other 5,000 doses will be reserved for the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis,
”explains Manon Daubas, responsible for vaccination at the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis.
While the first vaccinated leave the Stadium, the sports matches restart behind closed doors.
Next on the list is the Coupe de France football final.
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