COVID-19 Deaths Top 1.5 Million Across Europe

Europe reached the grim milestone of 1.5 million coronavirus deaths as nations scramble to tackle a worsening crisis with winter approaching. <br />France accelerated its Covid booster rollout and Germany, with fatalities and infections surging, weighed new measures. <br />Paris’s Health Minister Olivier Veran said Covid-19 booster shots, until now only available to people over 65 or with health problems, would be accessible to all adults starting this weekend. <br />The minister said the stringent measure could see France through the fifth wave without recourse to another lockdown, which the government is desperately trying to avoid. <br />The EU Commission recommended that the bloc’s vaccination certificate should become invalid once the holder’s latest dose is more than nine months old.