PARIS (Reuters) – France recorded a further 21,634 new, confirmed COVID-19 cases and 292 more deaths in hospitals from the virus in the last 24 hours, according to data from the health ministry.
France now has a total of 2,527,509 confirmed COVID-19 cases, while the total number of French deaths stands at 62,268.
France currently has the seventh-biggest COVID-19 death toll in the world.
(Reporting by Bertrand Boucey and Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Alex Richardson)