Behind the scenes

France’s Covid vaccine rollout flounders amid anti-vax backlash

Just 516 people given Pfizer jab in first week of mass vaccination scheme as doctors face bureaucratic chaos

5 Jan 2021

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Emmanuel Macron removes a protective face mask to take a drink of water.

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