The French parliament approved on Thursday the government's latest measures to tackle COVID-19, including a vaccine pass, to offer some respite to President Emmanuel Macron following criticism of his attack on the unvaccinated.

Macron said he wanted to "piss off" unvaccinated people by making their lives so complicated they would end up getting the COVID vaccine. He was speaking in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, in which he also called unvaccinated people "irresponsible" and "unworthy of being considered citizens."