A syringe with a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the vaccination center of the Palais des Expositions in Nice – Syspeo / Sipa
- The vaccination center at the Palais des Expositions in Nice vaccinated 5,000 people in one day, a record in France.
- 33,170 people received the two doses of the vaccine and 79,404 the first, which corresponds to 20% of the population of the Nice metropolis according to Christian Estrosi.
- The mayor of the city wants to speed up vaccination rates in order to move as quickly as possible towards collective immunity.
There, it’s done ! On the website of the city of Nice, the counter displays 5,000. This is the number of inhabitants vaccinated against Covid-19 since this Friday morning at the center of the exhibition center. The city’s objective of “France’s record of 5,000 vaccinated over one day and on a single site” has therefore been reached.
“I don’t want to wait any longer,” said Christian Estrosi, who was very proud to beat this record and to have “the largest vaccine park” in France in Nice. He adds: “This vaccinodrome is the only center in France to offer such a vaccination capacity, thanks to the arrival of vaccines and an anticipation and reorganization of the administration. If we want to win, we have to be even faster than the virus. “
” We’re early “
“We went very quickly, we are ahead! “, Boasted Christian Estrosi, evoking a rate of 20% of the vaccinated population in the Nice agglomeration and its hinterland,” when the national average is 12-13% [selon le site VaccinTracker, 14,65 % des Français ont été en fait vaccinés au 7 avril] “. He wants to speed up the injection rates in order to move as quickly as possible towards collective immunity.
The operation is part of an effort to mobilize volunteers, nurses, doctors and city officials, under curfew since January and the first to have been re-confined the weekend before the third national confinement.