The Ministry of Health will announce on Tuesday January 11 a record of more than 350,000 new Covid-19 contaminations in the past 24 hours, Olivier Véran told the Senate.
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I spoke of a tidal wave, the term seems to me to match the number of contaminations
," added the Minister of Health.
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The previous record of 332,252 new daily cases was set on January 5.
Since then, France has had two other days with more than 300,000 new cases over 24 hours, the variant Omicron, highly contagious, having become dominant throughout the country.
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It will be another 350,000 contaminations that will be published this evening, or even a little more.
We had never seen such figures since the start of the health crisis
, ”the Minister of Health told senators.