From the opening of the vaccination against Covid-19 for 12-17 year olds, some 150 adolescents, like Noé and Léa, went to a center in Douai to receive their first dose accompanied by their mother.

A necessary step before returning to a normal life according to the latter.

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"It doesn't hurt, we don't feel anything. Afterwards, it's for a good cause."

Noah, 12, is proud enough that he didn't tremble at his coronavirus bite.

Like a few thousand adolescents across the country, with more than 60,000 slots reserved as of yesterday according to Doctolib, this college student decided to be vaccinated with Pfizer from the first day of opening to 12-17 year olds.

She therefore went to the vaccine park at the Douai exhibition center, near her home.

And if many of his friends are for the moment reluctant to receive their first dose, Léa, his 15-year-old older sister, was there to set an example. 

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"As we go along, everyone will do as we do"

"I think if I do, some of my friends will do it soon. As we go along, everyone will do as we do so that they can return to life to the fullest as before, although I don't know if it is. will really be ", she explains at the microphone of Europe 1. 

Vaccination for 12-17 year olds is done on a voluntary basis only, with oral agreement from the teenager, and written by both parents.

But Bénédicte, their mother who accompanies them, obviously had no trouble convincing her children.

"Anyway, if they want to resume activities in general, they absolutely have to be vaccinated. There is no secret." 

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150 adolescents vaccinated in Douai

At the end of the first day, in Douai, 150 children like Noé and Léa received their first injection and the person in charge of the vaccination center hopes that this movement will increase.

"I have less worries about 15-17 year olds, since they are young people who have a social life. And as maybe vaccination will be compulsory to go to a concert, a football match or other."

On the other hand, the vaccination of 12-14 years "will depend on the parents", she advances at the microphone of Europe 1.

And to attract young people to its vaccination center, this manager would like to broadcast the match of the Euro of the Blues against Hungary next Saturday on the manager screen.

One way to combine business with pleasure.