After Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Le Parisien reports that appointments for the 3rd dose of anti-Covid vaccine have exploded.
During his eagerly awaited speech on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Emmanuel Macron announced the strengthening of the health pass. For some French people, taking their third dose of vaccine will be mandatory in order to have a complete health pass. Thus, a good number of viewers flocked to the Doctolib site to make an appointment for their 3rd injection.. According to platform data, communicated by The Parisian, more than 100,000 appointments were made in one hour on the site.
In his speech, the President of the Republic once again stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. “Get vaccinated”He said several times. He thus called on the French to their “spirit of solidarity”. Regarding the third dose of the vaccine, it will be necessary for those over 65 wishing to have a complete health pass. Indeed, the third dose will be mandatory to complete your health pass from December 15. During the month of December, it will be for 50-64 year olds to be vaccinated.
Vaccine rush: deja vu
As a reminder, the appointment booking had also exploded after his last speech dated July 12 and recording the implementation of the health pass. That same evening, Doctolib wrote on Twitter “17,000 appointments are made every minute at the moment “. By 8:30 p.m., the number had climbed to 20,000 appointments per minute. In less than a day, more than 1.3 million French people had made an appointment for vaccination against Covid-19. Wednesday 10 November, according to Our World in Data, 68.6% of French people are fully vaccinated.