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Nearly 1.3 million French people have made an appointment for a Covid-19 vaccine shot since President Emmanuel Macron’s address to the nation last night, France’s main medical appointment site, Doctolib, tweeted Tuesday.
The vaccine booking website initially crashed after Macron called on citizens to sign up for their Covid-19 shots and announced either proof of full vaccination, a negative PCR test result in the past 48 hours or proof of a recent recovery from the virus would be needed to enter restaurants, malls and bars and for travel on long train journeys and planes starting in August.
Macron also announced that vaccination would be mandatory for health workers starting Sept. 15 and hinted at the possibility of making the shot mandatory for everyone if the epidemic worsens.
Around 926,000 French citizens made appointments for their first dose on Monday, in a record sign-up, Doctolib, tweeted on Tuesday morning. In a further update, the site said around another 350,000 French people made their vaccination appointments since midnight on Doctolib, meaning nearly 1.3 million French people in total made an appointment since Macron’s address Monday night.
The website also said a record of 20,000 bookings were made every minute.
Doctolib’s CEO Stanislas Niox-Chateau said the 1.3 million bookings were a “record mobilization”.
“Hundreds of thousands of you have booked a vaccination appointment tonight! Good thing, we have vaccines, centers open everywhere, and tens of thousands of caregivers, firefighters, community agents who are waiting for you,” France’s Health Minister Olivier Veran tweeted on Monday night.
