The Omicron variant is now largely in France, indicates this Thursday evening Public Health France in its weekly update. It represents more than one in six positive cases this week. “62.4% of the tests screened showed a profile compatible with the Omicron variant”, specifies SPF. On December 13, it represented only 15% of positive cases.
Public Health France also indicates that the incidence rate exceeds 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in four regions: Ile-de-France, PACA, Corsica and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. This Thursday, more than 200,000 cases of Covid-19 were detected in France, for the second day in a row.