French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday 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. #France #Coronavirus #pandemic

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