PARIS, France
French President Emmanuel Macron has cancelled a planned trip to Mali due to his country’s COVID-19 situation which has deteriorated in recent days.
Macron’s trip to the West African country was due on December 20, where he was scheduled to visit French troops there and also meet transitional leader Colonel Assimi Goita.
“This decision was taken in order for there to be coherence between national measures and the president’s international agenda, and in order not to expose troops,” the French presidency said.
France is currently battling a fifth wave of the virus amid the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 strain.
On Friday, Prime Minister Jean Castex told a news conference: “The fifth wave is here and it is here in full force.”
Castex likened the spread of the Omicron variant in Europe to “lightning”.
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