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Faced with the alarming increase in cases, the government has extended the night curfew to cover more than two-thirds of the population, or 46 million people.
A nurse tends to an elderly woman suspected of being infected with Covid-19 in the emergency service of the Andre Gregoire hospital in Montreuil, east of Paris, on October 15, 2020. Image: AFP
PARIS – France has recorded more than a million coronavirus cases since the global pandemic began, with more than 40,000 new infections reported in the past 24 hours, French health services said on Friday.
A total of 42,032 COVID-19 cases were reported on Friday, 410 more than a day earlier, a new record since widespread testing began, the public health agency said.
The death toll also rose, with 298 new deaths recorded in 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 34,500 since the pandemic began.
Faced with the alarming increase in cases, the government has extended the night curfew to cover more than two-thirds of the population, or 46 million people.
The head of the Paris public hospitals group AP-HP, meanwhile, warned that the second wave could be worse than the first.
“There are a lot of positive, contagious people on the streets without knowing it and without anyone else knowing,” Martin Hirsch told French radio on Friday.
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