PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - France is to start offering a fourth COVID-19 vaccination shot to people over 80 years old who had their previous booster dose more than three months ago, French Prime Minister Jean Castex told daily Le Parisien in an interview published on Saturday.

The prime minister had said in January that France was ready to launch a campaign for fourth vaccine shots, or second booster, as soon as health authorities gave the green light.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-launch-fourth-covid-shot-over-80s-pm-says-2022-03-12/

Four Senate Democrats on Saturday issued a statement in response to the Biden administration's decision to uphold Title 42, a public health clause that began being used under the Trump administration to restrict immigration due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We are deeply disappointed in the Biden Administration's decision to maintain Title 42," read the statement from Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), as well as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

The senators said that the although the administration "made the right choice to prevent unaccompanied children from being expelled" in its recent announcement, "it is wrong that they made the decision to continue sending families with minor children back to persecution and torture."

"With vaccines and testing widely available, there is no public health benefit to sending asylum seekers back to harm," the senators claimed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/597974-senate-democrats-deeply-disappointed-in-biden-administrations