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began. cnn's melissa bell joins us now live from paris. many people are a symptomatic, the numbers are probably higher, aren't they, melissa. >> reporter: that's right, we heard from the health minister yesterday at the parliamentary committee, a million people could be contaminated in france right now. the number was probably much higher than that simply because there are many people who don't yet realize they have it. here in france, the omicron variant is not yet the dominant one. it is still the delta variant he explained to the committee yesterday that is causing that stress on the hospital system. and that we're seeing such fast rises in. but omicron is not far behind, he warned, with the number of cases doubling every two to three days. it should soon be dominant here in france as well. and what he explained as well, max, i think this was interesting, that whilst omicron was three times less dangerous than previous strains, it was leading to six to seven times more infections. that in terms of the arithmetic was going to have an effect on