Prevalence of Delta Covid variant increases as much as 4-fold in France as infections shoot up in southwest

The French government

The French government has warned about the Delta strain of Covid-19, after it appeared to become four times more prevalent over the course of a week, with some areas of the country seeing infection rates shoot up.

Speaking on Wednesday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said that the Delta variant of Covid-19 now represents 9-10% of all new cases in France. The figure marks an alarming increase on the previous week when Health Minister Olivier Veran said the Delta variant only represented 2-4% of cases in France

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