France notches up daily vaccine sign-up record

A medical technician administers nasal swabs at a mobile testing site in Paris (Michel Euler/AP)

Nearly one million people in France made vaccination appointments in a single day, as President Emmanuel Macron cranked up pressure on everyone to get jabs to save summer holidays and the economy.

An app that centralises France’s vaccination and other medical appointments, Doctolib, announced on Tuesday morning that 926,000 people had made appointments on Monday, a daily record since the country rolled out coronavirus vaccines in December.