By Eric Gaillard NICE, France (Reuters) - A French hospital worker has said he is on hunger strike to protest against a government rule that healthcare workers will be suspended if they are not vaccinated against COVID-19. Thierry Paysant, a fire safety officer with the public hospital system in Nice, southern France, has pitched a tent in front of the city s Saint-Pons abbey, and erected a placard reading Hunger Strike in large red letters. We will go as far as we are able to go, Paysant said outside the abbey, where he had also set up a camping stove. He said he was not against the vaccination itself, but objects to people being forced to get the shot or risk losing their jobs. It s hard to swallow, he said. It was imposed in a violent way. About 3,000 workers in the health and care sectors have been suspended in France for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before a government deadline, health minister Olivier Veran announced on Thursday. The new rules took effect on Wednesd
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