THE QUESTION
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208,000 new cases were detected on Wednesday in France, an absolute record since the start of the epidemic.
On average, over the last seven days, the milestone of 100,000 people who have tested positive has been crossed.
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This is an unprecedented figure, but if during the first wave we had had such a large test structure, we would certainly have had more daily cases
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BFMTV
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In other words, the extraordinary screening capacity and in great demand during the Christmas and New Year holidays would explain this explosion of new daily contaminations.
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Without wanting to put this impressive figure into perspective, it must be put into context,
" explains the same source.
The record for new contaminations, which the government expects to be broken in the coming days, can it only be explained by the fact that we are testing more and more?
CHECKS.
After a slowdown in the increase ...
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