More than 3,300 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in France in the last 24 hours, an unprecedented increase since May, according to figures from Public Health France posted online Saturday evening.
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According to these figures, 3,310 new positive diagnoses were recorded, as well as 17 new foci of grouped cases (" clusters "). The one-week positivity rate continues to increase to 2.6%.
The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care, roughly stable since the end of July, has increased slightly, to 376 (+9 compared to the figures published on Friday by the Directorate General of Health, which generally communicates the daily report). France now has 30,409 people who have died of Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic, including 19,904 in hospitals, according to Public Health France.