An ephemeral vaccination center was set up on Tuesday ... in a campsite in the Var, in Bormes-les-Mimosas.
The authorities hope to encourage tourists to be vaccinated.
The day after Emmanuel Macron spoke, the vaccination center quickly fell victim to its success.
From our special correspondent in Bormes-les-Mimosas
As the hour of the aperitif rings, Bruno approaches the video room of the Camp du Domaine, pétanque balls in hand and his tap dance on his feet. "Is it here to get the vaccine?" », Asks this tourist from Pays de la Loire. This Tuesday, at the request of the regional health agency and the Var prefecture, this five-star campsite in Bormes-les-Mimosas, one of the largest in the department, was transformed, during the break lunch, in an astonishing vaccination center, for its 3,000 holidaymakers who have come to bask on the Côte d'Azur.
“Our strategy is simple, it is that of“ going towards ”, details Houda Vernhet, chief of staff of the prefect of Var.
We are launching this operation in this campsite, as we are going to launch similar operations in shopping centers for example.
After having long insisted that the two doses should be administered in the same vaccination center, the Minister of Health has indeed recently relaxed his position on the matter.
A godsend in the Var, where the summer season promises to be high risk.
A high incidence rate
"The incidence rate in the department is accelerating extremely quickly," says Houda Vernhet. Almost 90% of the tests screened recently are positive for the delta variant. And the incidence rate went from 10% to 40% in a few days. However, the Var is the first French tourist destination with millions of people expected in the coming days. This implies health risks since a place like this campsite is conducive to gathering. "
And the operation seems to have met with some success: faced with the demand, after barely an hour, the deputy director of the Var of the regional health agency was forced to request a delivery of additional doses to the vaccination center. neighbor of Londe-les-Maures.
“We did not know if the public would be there, confesses Henri Carbuccia.
But we will renew the operation every week, and we are in contact with other campsites to do the same.
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"Since Mr. Macron spoke ..."
"We have well informed our holidaymakers of this operation, whether during our activities or during our traditional welcome drink," explains Marc Defour, the director of the campsite. But the best publicity has been made, I believe, by the President of the Republic… ”In the small queue which formed in front of the vaccination center, it is clear that the declaration of the day before by Emmanuel Macron made the effect of a trigger, sometimes not without a certain bitterness. "I was not too much for, blows Malika, employee of the campsite, lifting the sleeve of her T-shirt to receive the first dose. But hey, since Mr. Macron spoke, we understood that we didn't have to do it ... "
“I have no paper on me, I hope it will do it, worries Romain.
I am obliged because of my professional constraints to make long journeys.
If I wait for my return on the 20th to do my first dose, I will have to stay at home!
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"I came to be vaccinated just to be able to go to a club, confesses Arnaud, a young Parisian of 19, a blue bracelet from the campsite around his wrist.
Before, I was just lazy… And then I wasn't too keen on it too.
"I think it's a good opportunity, this center", applauds her mother Sylvie.
However, the latter does not hide her reluctance to be vaccinated.
"I will do it when I get home since I have to," she breathes.
There, it's the holidays, and the Covid, all that, I don't want… ”
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