France is witnessing the beginning of the fifth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s health minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday, triggering fresh worries for those who were hoping to see an forthcoming end to the infection.
During an interview with the TF1 television, the French minister confirmed that his country is now at the beginning of the fifth wave of the pandemic, much like “several [other] neighboring countries”, adding that the circulation of the virus was accelerating.
“Several neighbouring countries are already in a fifth wave of the Covid epidemic, what we are experiencing in France clearly looks like the beginning of a fifth wave,” Veran was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency in the TF1 interview.
France’s health ministry registered as numerous as new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the alternate day in a row that the new case census has remained over. New coronavirus cases have also seen double- number chance increases week-on-week since around mid-October.
Warning that Covid-19 infection rates are climbing again in the country, French chairman Emmanuel Macron said before this week that those progressed 65 and over in the country will need to show evidence of a Covid-19 supporter poke to be suitable to visit caffs, attend artistic events, and take intercity trains.
“From December 15, you (over 65s) will need to give evidence of a supporter poke to extend the validity of your health pass,” Macron was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency during an address to the nation.
Macron also prompted the six million people eligible for the vaccine in France who haven’t yet indeed entered the first cure to come forward and get the jab.
“This is an appeal to responsibility – get vaccinated,” he said.
Warning that the pandemic isn’t over yet, the French president said that all barrier gestures that protect people from both Covid-19 and other contagious winter diseases should be given more attention at this time.
