Frédéric Michel, in Nice, edited by Thibaud Le Meneec 6:27 am, September 03, 2021

A shot for the start of the school year.

Since Thursday, young people aged 12 to 17 have the opportunity to be vaccinated in or near their schools.

This is the case in Nice, where adolescents can receive an injection, without parental authorization for those over 16 years old. 

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"Hello! So, is it for a first injection?" Asks a professional.

"First injection", assures him Alexandre.

Like all young people over 16, the young man no longer needs parental permission to be vaccinated.

And since his whole family has already received the two doses of the vaccine against Covid-19, this student in Terminale in Nice has made up his mind in turn.

In the French Riviera metropolitan area, 70 establishments from first level to secondary have been offered the installation of ephemeral vaccination centers or slots in nearby vaccinodromes.

"It helps me to go outside with my friends"

In the general and technical high school Guillaume-Apollinaire, about twenty students were vaccinated Thursday, the day of the start of the school year.

Including Alexander, almost in a hurry to receive the injection.

"It does not pose any problem to me. It suits me, on the contrary, to have this health pass and to be done with all that as quickly as possible", insists the teenager.

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Like Alexandre, Wallen took advantage of this vaccination at the Lycée Guillaume-Apollinaire to get stung.

"I could have done it here like anywhere else. It's just that there was the earliest date," explains the young man.

"Precisely, having the sanitary pass, having the vaccine, it helps me to go outside with my friends, without any worries, without my doing PCR or antigen tests all the time."

The authorities want to "do it quickly"

But not everyone is convinced by the system put in place in schools. "We already talk about it a lot outside, so to talk about it also in high school, it may be a little too much, I think", supports Jordan. "I'll have to ask my mother for approval, but I don't know if she's going to agree. I don't think so."

Despite these reservations, the authorities want to speed up the process at the start of the school year. "We have an objective to be quick and to spread the vaccination times until mid-October," says Richard Laganier, rector of the Nice academy. "The issue is that we have the maximum of our population, including our young people over 12 years of age vaccinated, to ensure that a form of collective immunity is achieved." In the Nice metropolis, 63% of 12-17 year olds have received at least one dose of vaccine.