According to statistics released by the French Public Health Agency on February 3, the country has more than 274,000 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in a single day, with a cumulative total of nearly 20.15 million cases; 280 new deaths, with a cumulative death rate of nearly 132,000. French Health Minister Vilang said the day earlier that at least half of France's population has been infected with the new crown virus since the outbreak of the epidemic.
Due to the rapid spread of the mutated new coronavirus "Omi kerong", the cumulative number of confirmed cases in France since January this year has approached 10 million. At present, the average number of new confirmed cases in France in a single day is 290,000, down from last week, but still at a very high level.
On the evening of the 2nd local time, French Health Minister Verand said in an interview with the media that since the outbreak of the epidemic, at least half of France's more than 67 million people have been infected with the new crown virus.
According to le Parisien, in the two years since the outbreak of the epidemic, the total number of infected people officially recorded in France has exceeded 20 million, but the number of positive tests for the new crown virus and the actual number of infected people are two different data. According to Verlang, the actual number of infections far exceeds the officially recorded number of positive cases.
Asked about vaccine passes that took effect at the end of January and should be cancelled in July, Verander said the vaccine pass system would remain in effect, and that the vaccine pass system would be cancelled only when the number of severely ill patients fell to 1,000 and the health system could resume normal operations.