UK variant accounts for 'about half' of France's Covid-19 cases, PM says

The more contagious British #variant "now accounts for about half of people infected with #Covid-19 in #France", Prime Minister Jean #Castex said during a press conference on Thursday. The same variant had represented fewer than 40 percent of cases according to numbers released a week ago.
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