This year’s Christmas festivities will be an unprecedented super-spreader event as Omicron leaves European countries facing hospital collapse in January.
Health Minister Olivier Véran claimed the Omicron variant would only have a “fleeting” impact, although hundreds of cases have already been detected in France.
As the vaccine-resistant Omicron variant spreads across Europe, daily new cases in France are exploding, rising from 5,940 cases to over 60,000 in just one month.