Anne Hidalgo wishes to create a "place of active memory" in Paris in tribute to the victims of the coronavirus, she announced on Tuesday.

The form is not yet specified but it will be carried out in collaboration with the "Covid-19 Ad memoriam" institute. 

The PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced on Tuesday that she wanted to "build a place of active memory" in Paris in tribute to the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, whose death toll approaches 100,000 in France.

This place of memory, the form of which has yet to be specified, will be the result of a partnership with the "Covid-19 Ad memoriam" institute, of which professors Jean-François Delfraissy and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi are honorary presidents , said the mayor of the capital at the opening of the Council of Paris.

A wish in this direction presented by the deputy to the memory Laurence Patrice for an "intangible or material public tribute" was adopted unanimously by the municipal council.

"We want to analyze this upheaval represented by the Covid-19 pandemic and thus contribute to building a living memory of its psychological, social, political and economic effects", explained Anne Hidalgo, possible presidential candidate .

"We must vaccinate 7 days a week and until late at night"

"Every day, nearly 300 people disappear in our country. Since the start of the pandemic, 100,000 people have died from Covid in France," said the mayor, highlighting the "unprecedented shock on the hope of life of the French ".

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"The quantities of vaccines allocated by the State remain far below what we need to achieve a sufficient level of collective immunization by the summer", lamented the elected socialist, according to which "the acceleration "promised by the government" does not come, or too timidly. We need vaccinodromes and many more vaccines, much faster. We need to vaccinate 7 days a week and until late at night ", a she insisted.

Anne Hidalgo points to "delivery delays"

With only 16,000 first-time injections planned this week in the 24 Parisian centers, the campaign suffers from "delivery delays" and "growing mistrust of the AstraZeneca vaccine," said Anne Hidalgo.

"At this rate, it would take us more than a year to protect the 1.4 million Parisians over 18 who have not yet had access to vaccination."

The mayor also recalled the economic cost of the crisis for the capital, "estimated at more than one billion euros".

Intervened by videoconference, the prefect of police Didier Lallement indicated that he was in contact.

Two-thirds of those over 75 have received a first dose in Paris, he said.