PARIS (Reuters) – The Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus first found in India – which experts deem more infectious than other variants – currently represents 9-10% of confirmed new COVID cases in France, said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday.
Last week, French health minister Olivier Veran said the Delta variant represented 2-4% of cases in France.
Attal also told reporters that Russia had been added to the list of countries considered by France as high-risk Covid zones, along with Namibia and Seychelles.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Writing by Matthieu Protard; Editing by Benoit Van Overstaeten)
