Europe 1 with AFP 6:56 p.m., December 21, 2021
About 20% of positive cases for Covid-19 now fall within the highly contagious variant Omicron, which represented 10% of contaminations at the end of last week, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Tuesday evening.
About 20% of positive cases for Covid-19 now fall within the highly contagious variant Omicron, which represented 10% of contaminations at the end of last week, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Tuesday evening.
"At the national level, the estimate updated this evening of the circulation of the Omicron variant shows 20% of the positive cases which would fall under (this) variant. The estimate which had been made at the end of the week showed a circulation of 10% in our country ", declared Mr. Attal, after a consultation of the parliamentary groups by Jean Castex.
"This increase seems to be driven by a very strong increase in contamination among young people, especially 20-40 year olds," he said.