Vaccination: reopening of centers and extended hours in Île-de-France

Europe 1 with AFP 7:02 p.m., November 26, 2021

Several vaccination centers will reopen in Île-de-France after the government called on adults to be administered a booster dose against Covid-19, the regional health agency told AFP on Friday.

In addition, in the Paris region, 2,700 pharmacies, or three quarters of pharmacies, and 1,660 doctors offer vaccination, underlined the ARS.

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300 centers reopened

"Today, 108 vaccination centers are open in Île-de-France," said the same source.

"If they had sometimes reduced their hours, they will open new meetings, especially in the evening and at weekends, to be able to accommodate more people," she added.

Thus, in the Yvelines, seven centers are to open next week, so as to double the current supply.

The vaccination strategy is also based on city medicine.

"Today, more than 40% of the doses of vaccine injected are at his pharmacist or his doctor, sometimes even his dentist or his midwife", insists the ARS, for whom "we can push this offer even further. city, especially among doctors or through occupational medicine ".

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At the national level, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Friday morning on BFMTV and RMC that 300 vaccination centers would reopen in "the next few days, the next few weeks".

"At the peak [of the vaccination campaign, editor's note] 1,600 vaccination centers in France, today we are at 1,100", he detailed.

Regarding the recall, "we have the doses, 26 million are in stock, several million are already in the refrigerators of pharmacists and doctors", assured Gabriel Attal.

The number of cases has been increasing very rapidly in France for several days, reaching 33,464 new contaminations on Thursday, the highest since the end of April.