More than 5,400 new cases of infection with the coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, Public Health France announced on Sunday, a figure close to that of the day before.
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The progression was stronger on Wednesday and Thursday. The test positivity rate (number of people tested positive divided by the number of people tested) continues to increase, to 4.1% over the last seven days, against 4% on Saturday and 3.6% on Wednesday.
The number of foci of infection under investigation increased from 40 in 24 hours to 346.
Since the start of the epidemic, 30,606 people have died in France, or four more in 24 hours, including 20,099 in hospitals and 10,507 (data from Thursday) in social and medico-social establishments.