France's Vaccine Centres See Increase In Demand Amid Omicron Variant

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, FRANCE - DECEMBER 22: A pediatrician administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Tom on the first day of opening for vaccination for children at the National Velodrome on December 22, 2021 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, France. Three days before Christmas, the executive is under health tension due to the meteoric increase in the Omicron variant. Faced with the acceleration of the Covid-19 epidemic, France opens this Wednesday the vaccination of children from 5 to 11 years old. In addition, to force the 6 million French people not vaccinated against the coronavirus to be vaccinated, the vaccination pass could be in force "from the first half of January" 2022 announced the government spokesman Gabriel Attal on December 21. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)