Emmanuel Macron's announcements aimed at encouraging vaccination against the coronavirus caused a first burst.
This is 926,000 appointments made for the first doses that were taken on Monday, an absolute record in the matter, said the care site Doctolib.
By way of comparison, the previous 24 hour record was “only” 471,396 appointments made on May 11th.
A few minutes after Emmanuel Macron's speech, Doctolib tweeted that “20,000 vaccination appointments” were made “every minute”, with a 10-minute wait to access the site.
In anticipation, 212,000 people had already made an appointment during the day for a first injection this weekend, already "a record" for a month and "up to 40% more than the previous weekends".
Extension of the health pass
"You are hundreds of thousands to have booked a vaccination appointment tonight," noted the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Twitter.
"Good thing, we have vaccines, centers open everywhere and tens of thousands of caregivers, firefighters, community agents who are waiting for you," he assured.
This result stems from the pressure put by the President of the Republic on the unvaccinated to avoid a new wave of Covid-19 while the virus is on the rise again in all territories with the Delta variant.
Emmanuel Macron has decided to impose the health pass at the entrance of most public places and made vaccination compulsory for caregivers and those in contact with vulnerable people, sanctions to the key.
"The more we vaccinate, the less space we will leave for the virus" and "it is therefore a new speed race which is engaged", explained Emmanuel Macron during his televised address.
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