Paris: Vaccination prices increase again in France because the government requires passing the virus for more activities – but social workers are worried that this step will marginalize migrants and other poor populations.
So the doctor of unlimited assistance groups has established this summer tent in Northeast Paris to vaccinate migrants, homeless people and others without access to state or private health insurance.
Help groups take similar actions in other countries too.
“People think that these people don’t need a vaccine passport, ” Cristiana Castro, who oversees doctors without covid surgery in France, told the Associated Press.
But” they often need to access public places for housing, administrative processes, And they worry that one day passport will be asked to access it, and it creates a lot of anxiety.
“A line of around 30 people has begun to form when the tents opened on Thursday, most of them migrants from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and sub-Saharan African countries.
Many of them arrived recently in France.
“I felt good because today I got a Covid vaccine, and after I felt safe,” MDAMASUD PARVES, a migrant from Bangladesh who arrived six months ago, told the AP.
Doctors without limits gave Parves Pfizer vaccine shots, and appointments for doses Second in three weeks.
Since the announcement of President Emmanuel Macron on July 12 that “Pass Health ‘will be needed in restaurants, trains and many other places in France, the level of vaccination in the doctors without borders tent sites has increased from around 25 people to 120 People a day.
To get a graduate of health, people must be fully vaccinated or have evidence of negative tests or recent recovery from viruses.
This pandemic has migrants and poor especially throughout the world, and France is no exception.
More than twice as many people born abroad died in 2020 when those born in France, according to the National Statistics Agency, the figures were associated with the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a less-rich population.
Castro said the doctor without limits, also known by his French abbreviation, was trying to target people who live in a precarious condition, find people at food banks, homeless shelters, housing facilities for migrants, women’s health centers.
He said migrants generally saw vaccines positively, and had questions and fears similar to the general population.
Help workers were initially worried that not many people would return for the second dose, given that they did not have a regular place to stay and sometimes collected by the police.
The only single dose vaccine available, by Johnson & Johnson, was not authorized in France for those under 55 years old, so it was not an option for operations like this.
“But it is a population who wants a vaccine, regardless of some fear,” “he said.” So, we have a good level of people who return.
“‘France has the victim’s death related to the highest virus in the world, more than 111,000.
Life is lost, and the infection and hospitalization of viruses is now increasing.
The assistance group vaccinated migrants because France expanded the virus passed
