For the second year in a row, the fairgrounds of Luna Park are repacking their rides for the Christmas fair which was due to start next week. The Nice Exhibition Center is requisitioned to turn it into a vaccinodrome on Wednesday, the town hall confirmed to 20 minutes, the information of Nice morning. She specifies that the goal is to be able to make 6,000 injections per day to stem the fifth wave, which was not possible in other places.
Olivier Véran said Thursday the opening this weekend of the third booster dose of the anti-covid vaccine for all adults, from 18 years old, and from the fifth month after the second dose. The city of Nice then went from “potentially 50,000 people to be vaccinated, to more than 100,000”, indicated the person in charge of the vaccination campaign of the metropolis, Véronique Borré to the local newspaper, specifying that “the health concern is more important than fun ”.
Proposals such as the MIN parking lot (National Interest Market) or the Charles-Ehrmann stadium had been imagined to relocate Luna Park but impossible to accommodate the 130 rides, said manager Serge Paillon to the newspaper.