Paris, Oct 26 : France has registered a new record for the highest number of single-day Covid-19 cases, with a total of 52,010 people testing positive for the virus in a span of 24 hours, health authorities said.
Sunday’s figure came after Saturday’s record 45,422 cases, Xinhua news agency quoted the Public Health Agency as saying.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, France has registered a total of 1,138,507 coronavirus.
On October 23, it became the second European country to register more than one million confirmed cases after Spain.
Also on Sunday, the country reported 116 new fatalities, taking the death toll to 34,761, official data revealed.
In addition, 17 per cent of those tested for the virus now have positive results in France, after reaching 16 per cent on Saturday against 15.1 per cent the day before, in comparison to just 4.5 per cent in early September.
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