France announces mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for health workers
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Doctors, nurses and care-home staff in France have to get a coronavirus vaccine by mid-September or face having their pay docked and being barred from going to work.
The move was announced by President Emmanuel Macron in a televised prime-time address to the nation and came as part of a package of measures designed to deal with the rise in cases of the Delta variant.
Emmanuel Macron admitted that the country is going through a "strong rebound of the epidemic."
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