PARIS (Reuters) – Gatherings of family are a major source of COVID-19 infections, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday, adding the spread of the disease had accelerated in the last weeks.
“If everyone reduced his number of social contacts, this would help reduce the spread of the virus”, he said during a press conference.
Five people out of 100 tested for COVID-19 are today positive, versus one in a 100 at start of summer, Veran also said.
(Reporting by Geert de Clercq; Writing by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Toby Chopra)
