French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal has said the government expects to see around 4,000 patients in intensive care with Covid-19 by the Christmas holidays, reports Reuters.

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.

On Tuesday, the health ministry had registered 2,792 Covid-19 patients in intensive care wards.

In this file photo, medical staff members work in the Intensive Care Unit for Covid-19 patients at La Timone hospital in Marseille, France. — Reuters/File
In this file photo, medical staff members work in the Intensive Care Unit for Covid-19 patients at La Timone hospital in Marseille, France. — Reuters/File

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