{"id":311512,"date":"2021-07-29T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aid-group-vaccinates-migrants-as-france-expands-virus-pass\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:00:07","slug":"aid-group-vaccinates-migrants-as-france-expands-virus-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aid-group-vaccinates-migrants-as-france-expands-virus-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"#Aid group vaccinates migrants as France expands virus pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Aid group vaccinates migrants as France expands virus pass<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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PARIS \u2014 Vaccination rates are picking up again in France as the government requires a virus pass for more and more activities \u2014 but social<\/a> workers worry that the measure will further marginalize migrants and other poor populations.<\/p>\n

So aid group Doctors Without Borders has set up a tent this summer in northeast Paris to vaccinate migrants, homeless people and others without access to state or private health insurance. Aid groups are carrying out similar actions in other countries, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople think that these people wouldn\u2019t need a vaccine passport,\u201d Cristiana Castro, who oversees Doctors Without Borders\u2019 COVID operations in France, told The Associated Press. But \u201cthey often need to access public places for housing, administrative processes, and they worry that one day the passport would be required to access those, and it creates a lot of anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

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People waiting to be vaccinated at a tent site set up by Doctors Without Borders to vaccinate migrants, the homeless and other marginalized populations in Paris, Thursday, July 29, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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A line of about 30 people had already started to form when the tents opened Thursday, most of them migrants from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and sub-Saharan African countries. Many of them arrived only recently in France.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling good because today I\u2019m getting the COVID vaccine, and after I\u2019ll feel safe,\u201d Mdmasud Parves, a migrant from Bangladesh who arrived six months ago, told the AP. Doctors Without Borders gave Parves his first shot of a Pfizer vacine, and an app<\/a>ointment for the second dose in three weeks.<\/p>\n

Since President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s announcement on July 12 that a \u201chealth pass\u201d would be needed in restaurants, trains and many other places around France, the vaccination rate at the Doctors Without Borders tent site has risen from about 25 people to 120 people a day.<\/p>\n

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People rest after getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a tent site set up by Doctors Without Borders to vaccinate migrants, the homeless and other marginalized populations in Paris, Thursday, July 29, 2021.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To get the health pass<\/a>, people must be fully vaccinated or have proof of a negative test or recent recovery from the virus.<\/p>\n

The pandemic has hit migrants and the poor especially hard around the world, and France is no exception. More than twice as many people born abroad died in 2020 as those born in France, according to the national statistics agency, a number attributed to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on less well-off populations.<\/p>\n

Castro said Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, is trying to target people living in precarious conditions, finding people at food banks, homeless shelters, housing facilities for migrants, women\u2019s health centers.<\/p>\n

She said migrants general<\/a>ly see vaccines positively, and have questions and fears similar to the general population.<\/p>\n

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People receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines by medical staffs at a tent site set up by Doctors Without Borders to vaccinate migrants, the homeless and other marginalized populations in Paris, Thursday, July 29, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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The aid workers initially worried that not a lot of people would come back for the second dose, given that they don\u2019t have regular places to stay and are sometimes rounded up by police. The only single-dose vaccine available, by Johnson&Johnson, isn\u2019t authorized in France for those under 55, so that\u2019s not an option for operations like this one.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s a population that wants vaccines, in spite of some fears,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we have a good rate of people coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

France has among the world\u2019s highest virus-related death tolls, at more than 111,000 lives lost, and infections and virus hospitalizations are now on the rise again.<\/p><\/div>\n

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