Emmanuel Macron announced Friday, during the last vows of his five-year term, "
difficult weeks
" to come with the fifth wave of Covid-19, and the Omicron variant.
But, according to the head of state, there are "
real reasons to hope
" with the vaccine.
"
2022 may be the year of exit from the epidemic
," he also asserted during his speech.
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232,200 new cases were detected in 24 hours in France, which constitutes a new record, unheard of since the start of the epidemic in France.