By SudOuest.fr with AFP
France crossed for the first time this Wednesday the 200,000 contaminations, announced the Minister of Health Olivier Véran during a hearing at the National Assembly
France again crossed a new record for Covid-19 contamination on Wednesday, crossing the threshold of 200,000 cases for the first time, according to figures unveiled by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
Some 208,000 cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours in France, the minister announced during a hearing at the National Assembly.
“We are facing two enemies”
“We are facing two enemies,” Delta who has not said his last word, underlined the minister, as well as “the Omicron variant, and here I will no longer speak of vague. I mentioned the tidal wave. “” Given the figures that we have been recording for a few days, I will speak of a tidal wave, “said Olivier Véran.
Faced with the outbreak of contaminations, “10% of the French population is in contact” and the unvaccinated have “little chance of passing between the drops, the virus circulates too much”, estimated the minister, his voice deep. “Every second, two French people are positive for Covid-19”, he further illustrated. Monday evening, he had predicted that “we could reach more than 250,000 cases per day by the beginning of January”.
Tension continues to rise in hospitals as the number of beds occupied Wednesday by Covid patients in France rose to 17,856 (against 17,405 the day before), with 1,949 new hospitalizations. Just over 650,000 people also received an injection of the Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday: 48,535 first injections and 575,532 booster doses. In total, 51,711,014 people have had a complete vaccination schedule (76.7% of the total population) since the start of the vaccination campaign in France. And 23,635,447 received a booster dose.