France reports new post-lockdown peak in daily COVID-19 cases
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 08:09 | 13 August 2020
- Modified Date: 08:09 | 13 August 2020
The French health ministry reported 2,669 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours on Thursday, setting a new post-lockdown daily high for the second day in a row and taking the country's cumulative total of cases to 209,365.
The seven-day moving average of new infections, which averages out weekly data reporting irregularities, increased to 1,962, a total that has doubled over the last two weeks and is at levels not seen since the end of April.
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