A mass vaccination center in the southern French metropolis of Nice was forced to close early over the weekend after 58 people turned up for 4,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a spokesman for the Alpes-Maritimes regional police informed CNN.
Doses of the vaccine have been provided to people aged over 55 who’ve jobs with a excessive Covid-19 threat akin to lecturers, police, jail guards, however the center was forced to close Saturday solely hours after it opened.
The regional police division stated they hoped to reopen the center over the following two weeks to enable those that are eligible to present up.
A spokeswoman for the close by city of Grasse stated there have been 3,000 lecturers in the Alpes-Maritimes area who’re over 55 and that a few of them had already acquired their first dose which might clarify the poor turnout.
Hwever, Grasse senior official, Anne Frackowiak-Jacobs informed French tv France 3 people rotated once they heard it was AstraZeneca.
On Monday the French authorities spokesman Gabriel Attal lamented the closure of the center.
“We need to build up confidence in this vaccine, there’s a lot of work to do for that to happen,” Attal informed Europe 1.
He added that final week France vaccinated between 65,000 to 70,000 people per day with AstraZeneca doses.
France’s vaccine rollout has accelerated over the previous months with over 12 million people having acquired at the least one dose.
The nation goals to vaccinate 20 million people by May 15.