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France registered 5,084 new cases of Covid-19 disease in the last 24 hours, and the country currently has 1,415 patients admitted to intensive care units, the highest number since May 28 was published on Monday.
With the counting of these new cases by the French authorities, the total number of people infected by the new coronavirus in the country since the start of the pandemic crisis has risen to 624,274.
The French Public Health Agency also recorded 70 deaths associated with the Covid-19 disease in the past 24 hours, with the total number of deaths rising to 32,299.
The rate of positivity in diagnostic tests is now 8.6% (more than 7.9% and 7.7% registered on Saturday and Friday, respectively), the same entity announced on its online portal. ‘.
Overall, 7,294 were hospitalized due to the new coronavirus in the past seven days.
French health officials added that there are 1,340 active sources of contagion under investigation, 47 of which appeared in the last 24 hours.
Among the active outbreaks under investigation, 270 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.
These figures are given on the same day that the mayor of the Paris Police, Didier Lallement, announced that the bars in the French capital will remain closed for the next 15 days, while the restaurants remain open with the obligation to respect a new sanitary protocol. restricted.
On Sunday night, the city of Paris became a zone of maximum alert, which led to the strengthening of sanitary measures in the coming days.
Along with the closing of the bars, among other measures, events with more than 1,000 people are also canceled until October 19 in the French capital.
The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million thirty thousand deaths and more than 35.2 million cases of contagion around the world, 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.
