Europe 1 with AFP 1:41 p.m., December 22, 2021, modified at 1:48 p.m., December 22, 2021
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 should be in the majority between Christmas and New Year, announces Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, on Wednesday.
The Omicron variant is spreading "at a very rapid pace" in France and it could become the majority between Christmas and New Year, warned government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday, for whom the epidemic could "start again with a bang".
The variant "is progressively becoming the majority in several regions of our country, in particular in Ile-de-France, in Paris more particularly. It should be soon at the national level, probably between Christmas and New Year", warned the holder. speech at the end of the Council of Ministers.
While 73,000 positive cases for the coronavirus were detected yesterday in France, the government also announces that "a million screening tests are carried out in France every day".
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