An XXL vaccination center opens at the Stade de France -

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  • Open six days a week, the Stade de France vaccinodrome should initially allow 10,000 people to be vaccinated per week.

  • With the acceleration of vaccine deliveries, the ARS hopes to boost it.

    It will remain open for a minimum of six months.

  • Half of the meetings will be reserved for the inhabitants of 93.

For several weeks, the government has been repeating it over and over again: vaccination will accelerate sharply in April thanks to a massive influx of doses.

And the opening, this Tuesday, of the giant center at the Stade de France is the illustration.

What to vaccinate "morning", "noon" and "evening", "seven days a week, Sunday and holidays included", as Emmanuel Macron recently stated?

Not quite…

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10,000 doses per week ... at least at the start

Open six days a week, this XXL vaccinodrome should make it possible, at least initially, to vaccinate 10,000 people per week.

The center will be open six days a week, Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 8 pm or 9 pm.

If it has to be seven days a week and 24 hours a day, it will be seven days a week and 24 hours a day (…) We are ready to step up ”, assured Wednesday, during a visit of the infrastructures, Alexandra Boutelier, director General of the Stade de France consortium.

For the time being, the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) claims to have enough doses of Pfizer and Moderna to keep up with this pace at least in April and May.

But the objective, we are assured internally, is to ramp up to the rhythm of deliveries.

Three million doses are expected in the territory next week and nearly four million at the end of the month.

An essential increase if the government wants to keep its commitment of 30 million first-time vaccines by mid-June (more than half of the adult population).

Half of the meetings reserved for the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis

The other objective of the structure is also to correct the bias observed in the Seine-Saint-Denis department as soon as the vaccination campaign opens: in the first weeks, many center managers noted that more than half appointments posted on Doctolib were made by residents of neighboring departments, richer departments and in which the population is often more experienced in new technologies.

To avoid such a pitfall, half of the appointments will be reserved for the inhabitants of this department, one of the most affected by the health crisis and whose incidence is among the highest.

Thus, the Sequano-Dyonisiens will be able to make an appointment by telephone, a call center for making appointments being directly located in the Stadium.

The 5,000 other weekly meetings are open to all on Doctolib.

A center open "at least" six months

As everywhere in France, the vaccination center will welcome “target audiences”, that is to say those over 70 and then over 60 in mid-April as well as people suffering from comorbidities.

It will be open "at least" six months.

So some football matches will be held in the stadium while the vaccinodrome will remain in the basement.

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