PARIS, Dec 15 — French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said today that the government expects to see around 4,000 patients in intensive care with Covid-19 by the Christmas holidays.
He also told a news conference that the Omicron variant does not seem, at this stage, to cause more severe forms of the disease than the Delta variant.
Yesterday, the health ministry had registered 2,792 Covid-19 patients in intensive care wards. — Reuters
