France's parliament has approved a law that will exclude unvaccinated people from all restaurants, sports arenas and other venues as the central measure of government efforts to protect hospitals amid record numbers of COVID-19 infections driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant.
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A waiter checks the health pass of costumers with his smartphone in a restaurant in Paris, France, on 28 December, 2021. Source: AAP