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France moves to restrict restaurants to those vaccinated or testing negative for COVID-19
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France reports rush for vaccines after Macron tightens Covid rules. France moves to restrict restaurants to those vaccinated or testing negative for COVID-19
More than 20,000 French people a minute booked vaccine appointments in the hours after Emmanuel Macron announced that cafés, restaurants, shopping malls and trains would be out of bounds for unvaccinated customers from next month.
France reports rush for vaccines after Macron tightens Covid rules.
More than 20,000 people book jabs after cafes, malls and trains ruled out of bounds for the unvaccinated.
President Emmanuel Macron said maximising COVID vaccinations was key in preventing another lockdown further down the line.
“The country is facing a strong resumption of the epidemic touching all our territory,” he said during a televised address against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower.
Warning of a new wave of potential hospitalisations in August, he said, “The equation is simple. The more we vaccinate, the less space we leave this virus to circulate.”
“We’ve broken all records since the start of the vaccination campaign, and it’s continued during the night and into this morning,” Stanislas Niox-Chateau, the head of Doctolib – France’s main medical appointments website – said on Tuesday.
