The number of cases of Covid-19 contamination over the last 24 hours has climbed to 18,000, against less than 7,000 a week earlier, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran was alarmed on Tuesday, July 20, according to whom this increase, due to variant Delta, is unpublished.
"
I have just had the contamination figures for the last 24 hours in our country (...) We were yesterday at 18,000 contaminations over 24 hours only
", assured the minister during the questioning session to the government in the Assembly national.
Yesterday evening, at the end of the Council of Ministers, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, declared that France had entered
"in a fourth wave of the virus"
,
explaining that "
the dynamics of the epidemic are extremely strong, with a faster wave and a steeper slope than all the previous ones
”.
