Four days before the general opening of the vaccination against Covid, all adults in France can now make an appointment.
"This new step will not, however, make it possible to meet all the demand from patients," warned Doctolib, one of the appointment booking platforms.
All adults can now make an appointment to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
Appointment booking on internet booking platforms (Doctolib, Keldoc, Maiia) has been extended to 18-49 year olds since 11 a.m.
For them, the meetings will begin on May 31, the date of the official opening of vaccination to all adults in France, after the gradual lifting of the conditions of age or state of health initially in force.
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"Reservations will be progressive, new slots posted online every day on the various platforms", for his part assured the Minister, Olivier Véran, on Twitter.
"People 50 and over who are already eligible can obviously continue to make an appointment," the ministry said.
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"High attendance" expected
"This new step will not, however, make it possible to meet all the demand from patients", for its part warned Doctolib in a press release, pointing to "a still limited number of doses of vaccines, in particular Pfizer and Moderna".
"28 million adults are eligible for vaccination and not vaccinated to date for an average of 500,000 appointments available each day", continues the main booking platform, which "expects a large influx of its services".
Vaccinating as widely as possible is a crucial issue for France in order to avoid a resumption of the epidemic in the weeks and months to come, while the restrictions in force are gradually relaxed. At this point, 24 million people have received at least one injection (36% of the total population and 46% of the adult population), of which 10 million have had two (15% of the total population and 19% of the major population), according to the ministry.