PARIS (Reuters) – French health authorities said the number of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 were down by 38 over 24 hours, at 20,616, but on a week-on-week basis, that figure was up for the second day running, after declining by that measure since early February.
COVID-19 infections have been on the rise again since early March – with the seven-day moving average of new cases at a six-week high of 110,874 – and, generally, this trend inversion translates into hospital figures with a two-week delay.
Most of the country’s COVID-19 restrictions were lifted a few weeks ago.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
