They have barely closed their doors when they have to reopen them, and urgently. The announcements of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on November 25, and in particular the generalization of the administration of a booster dose to adults vaccinated against Covid-19, lead the communities and the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis to organize quickly to set up new vaccination centers and strengthen the capacity of existing sites. Here, as elsewhere, it is the commotion.
Time is running out: the validity of the health pass will now be conditional on the administration of this third dose (or a second in certain cases). The government has set January 15 as the date beyond which the certificate of French people aged 18 to 64, who have not received their booster dose more than seven months after their last injection, will be deactivated.
An example: if you received your second dose of Pfizer on June 18, your pass will expire on January 18, 2022. To extend its validity without interruption, you must receive your booster dose before January 11, 2022. A simulator easy to use exists ici.
The prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis announces that 22 structures will be open in the department for this recall campaign. In detail, these are the seven hospitals already operational*, the nine vaccination centers still open** and therefore the capacity will be reinforced, as well as six new municipal centres***. “Added to this are armed outpatient vaccination relays in connection with the municipalities,” state services specify.
Drancy would have “preferred to maintain activity in November”
“To date, 65% of pharmacies and 15% of doctors are authorized to vaccinate as a booster”, in Seine-Saint-Denis, adds the regional health agency. Which also underlines that “the offer in town has developed a lot” on the Ile-de-France scale. “Today, more than 40% of the doses of vaccine injected are injected with his pharmacist or his doctor, sometimes even his dentist or his midwife”, underlines the regional agency.
According to Health Insurance data from November 28, the vaccination rate in Seine-Saint-Denis is still lower than the national rate: 63.2% of the population is fully vaccinated, against 75.5% for the whole the French.
The first of the six centers to reopen its doors was that of Raincy, on Friday. The Tremblay-en-France center will now take place in the Jean-Ferrat space, from Tuesday, December 14.
Between the two, Drancy reopens this Monday, December 6. In nine months, more than 60,000 injections have already been carried out there in the premises of the former René-Deschamps school. Some 1,200 slots will be available from this first week. “The prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis heard our request”, welcomes Aude Lagarde (UDI). The mayor, however, regrets this interlude of five weeks. “We would have preferred to maintain the activity in November, which we demanded until the last minute,” she slips.
A new departmental center in Bobigny
Stéphane Troussel (PS), president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, made the same criticism at the end of November. “Once again, I am appalled by the level of unpreparedness of the government in its announcements on the third dose, he lamented on Twitter. Local authorities as communities discover the announcements in the press and undergo for 11 months of vaccination top-down decisions taken in the Defense Council. »
