The French government came under withering fire yesterday over fresh obstacles to vaccination in France, including the creation of a 35-member “citizens’ council” to monitor and advise the government on the inoculations.
The body, made up of members of the public drawn at random, is part of the response to the yellow vest protest movement of 2018-19 and is intended to counter fears that the state is forcing a dangerous vaccine on to the people, who are the most sceptical of vaccines in Europe, polls show.
Bureaucracy and elaborate measures needing the written consent of Europe’s most vaccine-hostile population were blamed for what doctors, opposition politicians and commentators called a fiasco since December 27, when some European nations began injections.
By yesterday, only 500 people
