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More than 90,000 people were declared positive for Covid-19 on December 23, according to data from Public Health France. This is a record never reached since the start of the pandemic.
Contamination by the Covid-19 virus has reached a record threshold since the start of the epidemic in March 2020. According to Public Health France, 91,608 new cases were confirmed on December 23, 2021. These are “the worst figures ever recorded since the start of the pandemic” said Minister of Health Olivier Véran. He warned during a trip to the vaccination center in the 5th arrondissement of Paris: the threshold of 100,000 people infected per day will be reached “closer to Christmas than to the New Year”.
“As the Delta wave begins to drop, the Omicron wave rises extremely fast.” he added, specifying a doubling of positive cases “almost every two days”. The Omicron variant would be according to the first scientific studies “maybe two and a half times less dangerous once caught than the Delta variant”. But there, “Although it may be half as dangerous as the Delta variant, if we have three or four times as many patients, the pressure on resuscitations can only increase sharply.”
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No restrictions in France for the moment
France is not the only European country to be affected by this increase in contamination, partly influenced by the Omicron variant. Many countries have taken health measures such as Spain and Italy which impose the mask on the outside, a curfew is taking place in Ireland and the Netherlands have decided to confine the population. The French government, for its part, has so far not decided to introduce restrictions and put more emphasis on vaccination. Emmanuel Macron has also called on the population to take care of each other by carrying out tests in particular before finding relatives for the holidays.
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