“The sanitary and epidemiological situation in France is clearly and very rapidly deteriorating.
This is troubling.
A rapid increase in new cases of coronavirus infection has been recorded, ”RIA Novosti quoted Attal as saying.
He noted that the level of infection cases exceeded 300 per 100 thousand inhabitants for the first time since April.
Earlier it was reported that the first case of a new strain of coronavirus "omicron" was recorded in the overseas department of France.