France has devoted 130,000 security personnel ahead of New Year’s Eve throughout the country, including police, firefighters, and civil protection elements, wrote French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Twitter this Friday, December 31.
This move comes as part of the country’s security efforts to curb the spread of the virus nationwide.
Currently, France is facing its fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new Omicron variant spreading across its regions.
The average number of new cases reported in France reaches a new high each day, recording over 121,000 daily cases, with the virus at its peak, according to Reuters’ latest COVID Tracker, released this Friday.
Recently, France adopted stricter restrictions in order to curb the spread of the virus, including a mandate remote work, effective from January 3, in addition to a ban on the consumption of food in outdoor places.
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