PARIS (Reuters) – France reported 17,615 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, sharply up from the 11,532 on Tuesday and 14,595 a week ago.
The increase was the highest since Nov. 21, and comes just a day after France replaced a nationwide lockdown with a curfew, after easing lockdown measures early December.
The health ministry also reported 289 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals in the past 24 hours, from 307 on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq, Editing by Franklin Paul)
