The number of deaths has also increased, with 298 new deaths recorded in 24 hours (Representation)
Paris, France:
France has recorded more than one million cases of coronavirus since the start of the global pandemic, 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 number of deaths has also increased, with 298 new deaths recorded in 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 34,500 since the start of the pandemic.
Faced with the alarming increase in cases, the government has extended a nighttime curfew to more than two-thirds of the population, or 46 million people.
The boss of the Parisian public hospital group AP-HP, meanwhile, warned that the second wave could be worse than the first.
“There are a lot of positive, contagious people in the streets without knowing it and without anyone knowing it,” Martin Hirsch told French radio on Friday.
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