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Posted on January 6, 2022
2 min readLast updated: January 28, 2026
France forecasts a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, declaring a health emergency in several regions. Record infections and protests over vaccine mandates continue.
PARIS (Reuters) -A “supersonic” rise in French COVID-19 cases will continue in the coming days, an official said on Wednesday as the government decreed a health state of emergency in Guadeloupe, Guiana, Mayotte, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said that infections were reaching “stratospheric levels” in the Ile-de-France region around Paris and some other parts of France, adding that the situation in hospitals could worsen in coming weeks, with no end in sight to rising infections.
On Tuesday, France reported a record 271,686 new COVID-19 infections over 24 hours.
In the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe, the government’s official representative said that two hospital officials were attacked during a protest on Tuesday against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the latest violent outbreak there.
“These deliberate abuses are unacceptable and intolerable,” the official said in a statement on Wednesday.
Violent protests broke out Guadeloupe and Martinique in November over a requirement for all healthcare workers to be vaccinated, a measure in force in mainland France.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Myriam Rivet, additional reporting by Gessika Thomas in Port-au-Prince; Writing by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Jon Boyle, Frank Jack Daniel and Alexander Smith)
The article discusses the anticipated rise in COVID-19 cases in France and the government's response, including health emergencies and protests.
France has declared a health state of emergency in several regions due to rising COVID-19 cases.
Protests in Guadeloupe are due to opposition against COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
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