It's time for the last shopping before Christmas.
But the queue, at the entrance of pharmacies, competes with that stretching in front of the Parisian department stores.
Under the flashing cross of a dispensary in the Opéra district in Paris, about twenty people wait in the cold.
Overwhelmed, the pharmacist growls:
"I don't even have time for lunch and the labs don't have enough reagents for the tests."
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After two years of pandemic and despite massive vaccination, hope for a “normal” Christmas has faded.
Just a year ago, the French were worried about
"the threat of the English variant of Covid-19"
and wanted to
"avoid the third wave"
.
Today, they fear the meteoric progress of the Omicron variant and are already talking about a sixth wave.
With a feeling of weariness which now bears a name:
"pandemic fatigue"
, according to the term put forward by the WHO (World Health Organization).
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