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France added another 16,972 positive coronavirus cases and 49 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected and deaths to 606,625 and 32,198, respectively, since the beginning of the pandemic, was published today.
As of Friday, the French Public Health Agency had registered 12,148 new cases of covid-19.
The positivity rate in diagnostic tests now stands at 7.9% (more than the 7.7% indicated the previous day), the same entity announced on its online portal.
In hospitals, 4,087 people were hospitalized for the new coronavirus in the last seven days, of which 849 are in intensive care units.
French health officials added that there are 1,294 active sources of contagion under investigation, 80 of which have appeared in the last 24 hours.
Among the active outbreaks under investigation, 255 of them are in homes and homes for the elderly.
Of the 101 departments in the country, 66 are still in a highly vulnerable situation.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than a million deaths and more than 34.6 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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