Some vaccination centers are only accessible to people with a health pass
The application of the directives relating to the health pass causes ubiquitous situations in certain vaccination centers, located in shopping malls.
An incongruity that borders on the absurd. In the procession of measures that have accompanied the deployment of the health pass in France for several weeks, some of them are causing consequences that are regrettable, to say the least.
"The whole point, for our customers, was to be able to go and get vaccinated without an appointment".
Thus, since the beginning of August, several shopping centers of more than 20,000 m² have had to introduce this famous health pass, in accordance with government recommendations. The problem, as noted by Le Figaro, is that some of these shopping centers host ... vaccination centers.
The whole point, for our customers, was to be able to go and get vaccinated without an appointment, on their way to do their shopping," said Anne-Sophie Sancerre, director of operations in Southern Europe for the commercial real estate giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, quoted by Le Figaro. It was a big asset to reach a less connected and more popular population." Beyond the drop in attendance caused by the implementation of the health pass, these vaccination sites are therefore now considerably less accessible to those who wish to take advantage of them.
Getting tested to get vaccinated
The solution for the latter seems to be... to get tested in order to be vaccinated. "When people who want to be vaccinated have not been tested, we still let them in if the vaccination center is located next to the entrance, or we have them accompanied by a security guard, but this will no longer be possible when attendance increases again, at the beginning of the school year," warns Anne-Sophie Sancerre.
The application of the health pass in the shopping centers concerned has already had an impact on the number of people vaccinated in these places. Le Figaro mentions the example of the Rosny 2 shopping center, where "the daily rate has dropped from 930 people vaccinated per day to 500".
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