In the spotlight: open vaccination!

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A vaccination center in Paris, March 16, 2021 © Benoît Tessier / REUTERS

By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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“In

recent days, anger and misunderstandings have been rumbling around a troubling issue

, notes

Liberation

:

after months of criticism of the lack of slots and tight flow of doses, some vaccination centers have found themselves with a myriad of slots available ... which do not find all takers.

"Indeed, points out the newspaper,"

more than 300,000 slots yesterday were still looking for volunteers meeting government criteria, and more than half of these precious doses may be expired in the next ten days.

"

So “

in this perilous moment, the government must quickly revise its strategy

, exclaims

Liberation and open vaccination to other categories before it is too late.

Opening up vaccination to teachers and other professions exposed to the virus appears to be the obvious solution.

(…)

It is now high time to move up a gear and immediately put this strategy in place.

"

Congestion?

For now, the government is procrastinating.

"

The executive wants first, at least for a few days, to go and find eligible latecomers

," notes

Le Parisien

.

The leading appointment scheduling site, Doctolib, has also followed the government line, through the voice of its boss, Stanislas Niox-Château, while suggesting that the switch could take place next week:

"If we open it all over the place now,

says the boss of Doctolib

, there will be a bottleneck and there will be no more appointments for two weeks. Next week, we will be more than 70% of over 60 years vaccinated, it will be the right time ".

"

Deconfinement: what timetable?

As for deconfinement, "

Emmanuel Macron seeks the right tempo

", points

Le Figaro

. “

The Head of State will detail tomorrow Friday, in an interview with the regional daily press, the gradual lifting of restrictive measures from the beginning of May. This lifting will be gradual and spread over time until the end of June, or even more, depending on the evolution of the epidemic and the deployment of the vaccination campaign.

"

L'Humanité

protests against this "

presidential word

" which it describes as "

the prince's act

": "

Trapped after announcing the big night for mid-May, the president will have to cunning so as not to have to reconsider himself,

estimates the communist daily

.

The threat of the Brazilian and South African variants, which already represent 9% of contaminations in Ile-de-France, has changed the situation.

Resuscitations remain saturated, caregivers exhausted.

Deconfining too quickly, too hard, would condemn a new step back in a few weeks and always postpone the end of the long-awaited tunnel.

"

PSG: from dream to nightmare

Disillusionment for PSG.

Beaten Wednesday night by Manchester City two goals to one, "

Paris has gone from dream to nightmare

", plague

Le Parisien

.

That it will be hard for the Parisians next Tuesday on the grounds of Manchester City.

Beaten in the semi-final first leg, after having opened the scoring, the Pochettino players collapsed after the break, losing even Gueye, expelled for a nasty gesture.

(…)

There remains a match, a possible reversal, it is even the very nature of this game to offer it.

Often even.

Hope exists, but so does the real.

The task is immense and the possibility of achieving it as easy as passing the thread through the eye of the needle the first time.

"

Mbappé and Neymar with absent subscribers

It was a strange evening for the attackers of the capital

, sighs

L'Équipe

,

like Mbappé, for whom the disappointment was up to the expectations born of his recent exploits. The world champion has never been in the right places and he badly negotiated the few balls he had under his crampons.

(…)

The meeting was just as frustrating for Neymar. Finally, the most prominent of the trio was Di Maria

, notes the sports daily.

As on the comeback against Bayern, the Argentine - responsible for closing the lane on the defensive phases, in other words a good part of the time - was admirable in dedication and involvement.

"

In addition, underlines

L'Équipe

: “

He placed the corner of the opening goal perfectly for Marquinhos.

A scoring defender: a true symbol of the impotence of the Parisian attack.

In five days, the trio will have a second chance.

"

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