Paris, Jan 21 : The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in France hit a two-month high at 26,784, health authorities said on Wednesday.
A higher daily tally, at 28,393, was registered on November 18, 2020, according to official data, Xinhua news agency reported.
Meanwhile, the country’s coronavirus death toll increased by 310 within a day.
Currently, a total of 25,686 people are hospitalized, 2,852 of them in intensive care.
The two tallies rose by 119 and 13 respectively in the last 24 hours.
To date, France has recorded 2,965,117 people having caught COVID-19, of whom 71,652 have died.
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