French hospital worker on hunger strike over vaccine mandate
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A French hospital worker has said he is on a hunger strike to protest against a government rule that healthcare workers will be suspended if they are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Thierry Paysant, a fire safety officer with the public hospital system in Nice, southern France, has pitched a tent in front of the city’s Abbey of Saint Pons, and erected a placard reading “Hunger Strike” in large red letters.
“We will go as far as we are able to go,” Paysant said outside the abbey, where he had also set up a camping stove.
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