France reports rush for vaccines after Macron tightens Covid rules
by Jon Henley in Paris from on (#5M4HG)
More than 20,000 people book jabs after cafes, malls and trains ruled out of bounds for the unvaccinated
More than 20,000 French people a minute booked vaccine appointments in the hours after Emmanuel Macron announced that cafes, restaurants, shopping malls and trains would be out of bounds for unvaccinated customers from next month.
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.
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