The number of daily hospitalizations rose to 1,741, 77 more than the day before. (Representative)
Paris:
The number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in France in the past 24 hours has passed 30,000 for the first time, official data showed on Thursday.
The French public health agency said a total of 30,621 confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been detected in the past 24 hours, a record daily total.
The number of people who died from the new coronavirus in the same 24-hour period stood at 88, bringing the total number of deaths in France since the start of the pandemic to 33,125, the agency said.
The so-called positivity rate – the proportion of people infected out of the total number tested – rose to 12.6% on Thursday from 12.2% on Wednesday.
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered a nighttime curfew for Paris and eight other French cities to contain the spread of Covid-19 as daily rates of new infections reached alarming record levels.
For a few days now, the number of people admitted to intensive care has also increased, from 171 new patients on Monday to 226 on Tuesday, 193 on Wednesday and 219 on Thursday, according to the data.
The number of daily hospitalizations rose to 1,741, 77 more than the day before.
Health Minister Olivier Veran said France currently has some 5,800 intensive care beds.
At the height of the pandemic in early April, more than 7,000 coronavirus patients were in intensive care. The number fell sharply until the end of July, but has increased again since.
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