• In Ile-de-France, nearly 49% of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine.

  • The regional health agency is increasingly seeking to develop vaccination by reaching out to more vulnerable groups.

  • Delivery people can be vaccinated without an appointment every afternoon of this week at Place de la République in Paris.

Guillaume, 46, confides his large Deliveroo bag on his back, he has long hesitated to be vaccinated against Covid-19, not very reassured at the idea of ​​receiving this new generation serum. It is finally a message, sent by the platform that has employed him for a year, which decided this delivery man to go, this Tuesday afternoon, to the ephemeral vaccination center installed on the Place de la République, in the 10th arrondissement. from Paris. “Honestly, I don't know if I will have taken the step to make an appointment, with our schedules, our pace, it's not easy to know when we'll be free,” he says.

If this center, which opened on Monday, is accessible to all, it was first designed for delivery people, in collaboration with the main platforms: Deliveroo, UberEats, Frichti… The place, central, and the schedule, the afternoon, between the midday and evening rushes, were adapted to this young audience, often very precarious, exposed and by essence, particularly mobile. All delivery people have been notified of the operation by their employers. “Today, the challenge is no longer to find the doses but to vaccinate as widely as possible, insists Aurélien Rousseau, the director of the regional health agency of Ile-de-France. However, we know that the most precarious populations are the furthest from the healthcare system and therefore from vaccination. “Hence the proliferation of barnums at the foot of the towers or on university campuses.

The majority of volunteers? Local residents ...

Azimullah, a 24-year-old Afghan who arrived in France three years ago, sees this operation as a “blessing”. His rudiments of French did not allow him to make an appointment on the Internet. Besides, he probably wouldn't have dared to go through the traditional route. “A friend came over yesterday and told me that anyone can get stung,” he explains, all smiles, twisting the strap of his UberEats bag. Kouadio-David, he is not so serene. "Did you do the vaccine?" He asks all the volunteers. Before rolling up his sleeve, this Frichti delivery man since 2018 asks the doctor about all the side effects to which he is exposed. “I know it's the right thing but I can't help but be afraid. Without this operation, he admits he probably wouldn't have taken the plunge.

However, even if the operation was designed for delivery people, they remain in the minority on Tuesday. The majority of the volunteers are residents of the neighborhood, delighted to be able to be vaccinated without an appointment. Like Marc-Olivier, 43 years old. “I wanted to do it for a long time, but at the beginning when we connected to Doctolib, there were never any slots, there at least it's easy. Some came spontaneously, others were directed towards the barnums by four volunteers of the Red Cross, who did not cease, throughout the afternoon, to survey the Place de la République to inform but also respond to concerns.

In total, 3,000 doses have been set aside for the operation which is due to end on Friday but Monday, for its first day, only a hundred injections were made.

"Obviously, we could say that it is a huge commitment for few results but each vaccination is good to take and it is perhaps 100 people who would not have gone to a center", assures the director of the. ARS, determined to amplify this new so-called “going towards” strategy.

The aim is to avoid a fourth wave at the start of the school year linked to the spread of the Delta variant.

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