with more than 90,000 cases in 24 hours, France has recorded its “worst figures” since the start of the pandemic, alert Olivier Véran

This threshold had never been reached since the start of the epidemic in March 2020. Contamination by the Covid-19 virus has exceeded 90,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours, according to figures released Thursday, December 23 by Public Health France. 91,608 new cases have been identified, under the effect of the fifth wave and while the Omicron variant is spreading in France. The previous all-time high, 86,852 cases, dates back to early November 2020, at the peak of the second epidemic wave.

These are the “worst figures ever recorded since the start of the pandemic”, alarmed Olivier Véran. During a trip to a vaccination center in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on Thursday, the Minister of Health warned: according to him, the threshold of 100,000 contaminations per day will finally be reached “closer to Christmas than New Year”. He noted, however, that where Omicron “circulates a lot, for the moment, it does not lead to waves of hospitalizations”.