According to AFP information collected from a source who requested anonymity, the Stade de France will host in early April "a large vaccination center" against Covid-19.

"Several thousand people" can be vaccinated there every week.

A "large vaccination center" against the Covid-19 "is to open at the beginning of April at the Stade de France" in Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis, in order to accelerate the pace of injections against the coronavirus, the AFP Friday from official source.

"Several thousand people" can be vaccinated there each week, said the source, who requested anonymity.

The project is under study between the city of Saint-Denis, the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, the regional health agency and the Paris fire brigade, in partnership with the Seine prefecture. -Saint-Denis, she added, specifying that the exact opening date had not yet been decided.

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The Velodrome already transformed into a vaccination center

In Marseille, the iconic Vélodrome stadium has already been hosting a Covid-19 vaccination center since Monday.

It is installed in the premises of a stand, and not on the lawn or in the stands, according to the regional health authorities (ARS).

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the incidence rate of the virus has skyrocketed to 546 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days, well above the maximum alert threshold set at 250 by the health authorities, according to the reports. figures from ARS Ile-de-France available on Friday.

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While waiting to receive an injection in the largest French stadium, the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis, who are among the citizens subject to regional re-containment for a month, can go to one of the 23 open vaccination centers. near their place.

The department, the poorest in mainland France, "has benefited from a greater vaccine endowment than other Ile-de-France departments in relation to the target population, or 14.1% of dose allocations while the target population (+75 years) represents 10% of the target population of Ile-de-France ", specifies the prefecture, explaining that this effort takes into account the" high "incidence and" the socio-economic criteria of the population ".

On March 16, more than 85,000 inhabitants of the department had received a first injection of vaccine against covid, said the Prefecture.