France has entered a fourth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic which is spreading at "lightning" speed, said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Monday.

"We are seeing a wave faster than all the previous ones," Attal told a press conference, noting that the incidence rate has increased by nearly 125 percent in one week, "an increase so strong, so sudden that we had never known since the beginning of the epidemic in our country."

To curb the spread of the virus, a cabinet meeting adopted earlier in the day a law bill, which include compulsory vaccination for caregivers and massive extension of the health pass.