PARIS (Reuters) – France showed almost 1,400 new cases of COVID-19 at the moment in a row on Thursday, a point that had not been noticed since last June, while hospitals in the country reported an increase in the number of other people. intensive care for the first time in 16 weeks.
“The virus flow is maintained with new instances that expand across more than 1,000 … Quick and radical efforts are needed,” the fitness government said in a statement.
1377 more cases of viruses were reported, raising the moving average of 7 days above the 1000 threshold for the first time since the first half of May, when France eased its blockage, and the overall total to 186573.
Health officials said 381 others were in intensive care (ICU) due to the disease, only one more than 24 hours earlier, but the first time that number is higher in 16 weeks.
At the height of the pandemic in early April, more than 7,000 people in resuscitation were being treated for coronavirus.
The number of patients hospitalized for the disease decreased from 75 to 5,375, following a downward trend of more than two months.
There were new deaths from the disease, bringing the total to 30,254.
(Report through Benoit Van Overstraeten; edited through Diane Craft and Alex Richardson)
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