EMMANUEL MACRON has been hit by a fresh wave of Yellow Vest protests in Paris as fury grows over his handling of the Covid pandemic.

Hundreds of Yellow Vests protesters took to the streets of the capital to precise their outrage at the French President's handling of the crisis. The French leader, who is struggling to accelerate a vaccine rollout in France that's badly lagging behind Britain's, was accused of threatening people with more restrictions as infections still rise.

Nejeh, a protester and organiser, told Ruptly: "We are only posing for solutions, but they are doing not to give us solutions, they put us ahead of accomplished facts.

"They close hospitals. There are removing beds in hospitals then they assert that there are not any more places to treat people. They're getting to tell us to remain reception .

"We can not accept it."

Valerie, another Yellow Vest protester, said: "I believe we've 800 political prisoners, 800 'Yellow Vest' activists in prison.

"I think there are three dozen accidents during which protesters lost their hands or their eyes.

"So for all those people, we keep fighting, for the liberty of the press, to ascertain official media to tell the reality.

"We thank the choice media who follow us and that we would really like France to stay a free country."


Mr Macron faced an enormous backlash over the rollout of jabs throughout the country, lagging significantly behind other nations.

In France, but 3 million people are injected with the primary dose of the vaccine, whilst almost 20 million have received the primary jab within the UK.

The French President had also caused dismay in Britain after being quoted earlier this year as saying the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine appeared "quasi-ineffective" among those aged over 65.

Last week, Mr Macron was forced to form an embarrassing U-turn as he said he would gladly accept being inoculated with the Oxford jab if it were offered when his turn comes.

He said: "In view of the newest scientific studies, the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been proven.

"My turn will come, but I've got time. If that is the vaccine that's offered to me, i will be able to take it, of course."

He also said AstraZeneca had did not meet its delivery targets which EU leaders were putting pressure on the Anglo-Swedish company.

He said: "We told them, you are not being serious about the commitments you made, because you haven't met them.

"We're putting pressure on them in order that they structure the bottom lost then that a particular timetable is met."

Last month, vaccine maker AstraZeneca cut its planned deliveries to the EU within the half-moon of the year to the bloc to 31 million, and later lifted it to 40 million after intense pressure from Brussels.

EU officials had initially been told by the drugmaker that only 80 million doses would be available by the top of March, an EU document seen by Reuters revealed.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to apologise for the vaccine failures within the EU.

She told the EU Parliament: "We were late to authorise.

"We were too optimistic when it came to massive production, and maybe too confident that what we ordered would actually be delivered on time."

But she said a joint response was still the simplest course of action.

She said: "I can't even imagine if a couple of big players had rushed thereto and therefore the others went empty-handed.

"In economic terms, it might be nonsense and it might be feel the top of our community."

The European Commission President had said a rustic could act like “a speedboat” with its vaccine rollout, while the “EU is more sort of a tanker”.