Is it the rush, or even the traffic jam? More than two million French people have already made appointments on Doctolib in order to be vaccinated, since the announcements of Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of the week, the platform announced on Wednesday.
The President of the Republic has decided to impose the health pass at the entrance to most public places and made vaccination compulsory for caregivers and those in contact with vulnerable people, sanctions to the key.
2.24 million people have made an appointment since the announcements
Some of these measures will come into force this summer, pushing many French people who have so far been hesitant or suspicious to take the plunge and reserve vaccination slots.
According to a score communicated by Doctolib this Wednesday morning, 2.24 million people have made an appointment since the announcements of the Head of State on Monday evening. According to The Parisian, more than 100,000 appointments were made on the KelDoc platform and 150,000 on Maiia only during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced a new daily record of the number of injections declared to 792,339.
Tuesday, the boss of the platform for making medical appointments Stanislas Niox-Chateau had estimated on BFMTV that the vaccination campaign would “quickly rise to four, five million injections per week”, due to the measures taken by the government.