In France, which set a record of 208,000 new daily cases on Wednesday, the most recorded in any European country since the pandemic began, the health minister, Olivier Véran, said the increase was “dizzying.”
“This means that 24 hours a day, day and night, every second in our country, two French people are diagnosed positive,” he said, according to Reuters.
Even though Germany reported a doubling of Omicron cases over the past week, the country’s health minister, Karl Lauterbach, said on Wednesday that the true number of new coronavirus cases has been underreported. He said that fewer people are testing over the holidays and the actual incidence rate of infections is about two or three times higher.
In Italy, the Delta variant remains dominant, but Omicron is gaining ground.
Dr. Mario Sorlini, who is based near Bergamo, Italy — the medieval town known as Europe’s first Covid hot spot after it was ravaged by the virus two years ago — has been watching as case numbers have soared.
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