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PARIS: France recorded a record 52,010 new confirmed coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, following a record 45,422 on Saturday (October 25), the Health Ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as a second wave of cases increases in Europe.
New cases brought the total to 1,138,507, with France now ahead of Argentina and Spain to record the fifth-highest number of cases in the world after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia.
In the last three days, France has registered more than 139,000 new cases, more than the 132,000 cases registered during the two-month closure from mid-March to mid-May.
The Health Ministry said 116 people had died from the coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, compared with 137 on Saturday, bringing the total to 34,761.
The number of people who tested positive during the massive tests taking place across the country rose to 17%, from 16% on Saturday and around 7% a month ago.
Like many other European countries, including neighboring Britain, Spain, and Italy, France has seen a second wave in recent weeks.
The head of the Paris region’s health authority, Aurelien Rousseau, said on BFM television that the circulation of the virus in the region was accelerating and that the situation in French hospitals was becoming increasingly tense.
The Health Ministry did not report hospital data on Sunday, but on Saturday the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus rose by 652 to 15,660 and the number of people in intensive care by 59 to 2,500, compared with a high of 7,148 during the spring close. .
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