The idea is not new, but it has matured over the past month. The City of Thionville and the urban community have worked on the opening of an anti-Covid vaccination center, like the Covid Thionville Nord Moselle screening center, installed last April at the Jean-Burger gymnasium.
This Tuesday January 12, facing the press, Mayor Pierre Cuny unveiled the main lines of the project.
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The vaccination center will be installed at the Municipal Theater of Thionville. Because the latter is central and because it is sufficiently large. Secondly, the urban community will be able to “arm” a second center at the Bestien room in Yutz, or even a third in Fontoy. The bottles will be sent from the Mercy hospital in Metz, which keeps the stock.
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When?
“On condition of having a sufficient vaccine flow, and as soon as the green light from the Regional Health Agency, we could start next week”, assures Pierre Cuny who cannot imagine that the North Moselle is deprived of a center of vaccination. If the theater were to resume its cultural activity, the center would then be moved to another place, in Thionville.
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For who ?
People over 75 years old at first – there are around 3,500 in Thionville – then those over 65 with a chronic pathology or comorbidity. At least this is the wish of the mayor-doctor who hopes to vaccinate 7,000 people under these conditions. “I am pro-vaccination,” he says. The vaccine strategy in France is the right one, but now we must accelerate. In this logic, the vaccine will not be reserved for Thionville residents.
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With whom ?
With health professionals from the civilian and citizen reserve, and with the Intercom Santé 57 association. “We already have 90% positive responses on our listing of 120 names,” says Pierre Cuny. However, a few arms are still missing to operate the center and its three vaccination lines, from Monday to Saturday.
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Comment ?
Residents over 75 of Thionville wishing to be vaccinated should contact their doctor or the mayor. A toll-free number will be open next Monday on the City’s website.
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