It is "probable that Omicron is already circulating with us".
Olivier Véran spoke this Sunday morning from a vaccination center in the 18th arrondissement in Paris and felt that it was very possible that the variant, coming from southern Africa and worrying the whole world, was already circulating in our territory.
“As soon as it circulates among our neighbors, it is likely that it is already circulating among us”.
But, according to him, this "does not change the situation" concerning the measures put in place by the French government to fight against the epidemic.
According to him, "We can fear that this new variant is at least as contagious as Delta".
Even if everything is not yet certain for the scientific community: “All the researchers are hard at work to see if this variant presents elements that should worry us.
When in doubt, we act as if this variant was dangerous ”.
In two days, more than 700,000 French people received their booster dose
The Minister of Health has also taken stock of the vaccination reminders of the last two days, since it is mandatory for eligible adults.
According to him, there was a real "craze" of the French: "More than 700,000 French have received their recall over the last two days (...) including more than half from city doctors".
"We will exceed the 52 million French people who have received at least one injection", noting that 25 million doses were still available.
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Olivier Véran also promised the establishment of 300 additional vaccination centers in the coming days.
Enough to achieve the objective set by the government of "10 million French people" having received the booster dose by the end of next week.
“I hope that we can arrive or get very close to the ten million French people who have received their booster dose by the end of the week (…) We set very high objectives in terms of the pace of this campaign.
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