Omicron variant, France “risks 100,000 cases a day”

The Omicron variant of Covid will be “dominant in France between Christmas and New Year”. This was predicted by the French Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, in an interview today with Bfm TV, underlining that there is therefore a risk of “100 thousand new cases a day”, compared to the 70 thousand registered in recent days. At the moment, Veran explained, Omicron cases are 20% of national ones, 35% in Ile-de-France. “But if you ask me this question in two days, I will tell you that one out of three contagion is for Omicron”, the minister then added, underlining the speed of the contagion of this variant.