Prime Minister Jean Castex assured that the vast majority of coronavirus cases detected in France were in unvaccinated people.

"The contagiousness of this Delta variant obliges us, we must vaccinate", alerted the head of government, Wednesday at 13h TF1. 

96% of the 18,000 cases of Covid-19 contamination identified on Tuesday were not vaccinated, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday after the holding of a Health Defense Council at the Elysee Palace. "In the 4th wave, we are there," said Jean Castex to the news of 13H of TF1, specifying that the number of contaminations had jumped by 140% in one week.