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3,000 Health Care Workers In France Have Been Suspended For Not Getting A COVID Shot

French law had set a Sept. 15 deadline for the country's 2.7 million health care workers to get vaccinated. The ones who didn't get a jab were suspended, the country's health minister says.
Medical staff members tend to COVID-19 patients at the AP-HP Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris in April.

France's health minister has said that thousands of health care workers across the country have been suspended without pay for failing to get a required COVID-19 vaccine.

"Some 3,000 suspensions were notified yesterday to employees at health centers.

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