Tens of thousands of the country's 2.7 million health workers were unvaccinated in July when President Emmanuel Macron announced the September 15 deadline to have at least one shot of a vaccine.

The U.S Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) vaccine advisory panel is meeting Friday to consider drug partner Pfizer-BioNTech's application to offer their COVID-19 vaccine as a third-dose booster for patients 16 and older.