PARIS (Reuters) – On Monday, 493 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, a drastic drop of more than 3,000 in the following two days, but respiratory disease hospitalizations increased for the third day in a row.
The numbers for new cases published on Monday have been lower than for the weekend since the outbreak began, as fewer coronavirus tests are performed on Sundays, so the drop in infections does not necessarily mean a replacement in the trend.
The seven-day moving average of new infections, which eliminates irregularities in reports, stands at 2322, above the 2000 threshold for the fourth day in a row, a series that has not been observed since 20 April, when France was in the midst of one of the strictest in Europe..locks to involve the spread of the virus.
The cumulative total of infections in France reached 219,029.
With the infections expanding again, the French government is rushing to a second, economically damaging national blockade.The government will propose on Tuesday that the mask be used in shared indoor workspaces, while Paris and Marseille, France’s two largest cities declared as “red zones” of infection, have expanded spaces where the use of the mask is mandatory.
Since early August, the new COVID-19s have higher values up to 1830 on average daily, two-and-a-half times higher than the July average, and also higher than the March 1678 figure, when the spread of the virus accelerated.
After steady declines from a peak of 32,292 on April 14, the number of other people hospitalized for the disease increased from 65 to 4,925, after an increase of 3 on Sunday and 29 on Saturday.(ICU) has increased across 17 in the last 3 days to 384.
This figure for the ICU peaked at 7,148 on April 8, when the French fitness formula was on the brink of collapse.
Coronavirus-related deaths increased from 19 on Monday to 30429, after four years of accumulation over the weekend.
Reporting through Benoit Van Overstraeten; Edited through Mark Heinrich
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