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France reports 22 cases of new COVID-19 variants, ministry says

A woman wearing a face mask walks past the glass pyramide of the Louvre museum closed as part of COVID-19 restrictions measures to fight the coronavirus disease outbreak in France, January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

French Health ministry said on Thursday that 22 cases of new variants of the coronavirus have been detected in France.

The ministry also said in a statement that two high-risk clusters that could feature the new British variant of COVID-19 have been found in the Brittany and the Paris regions.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Writing by Matthieu Protard)

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