France warns of second virus wave after increase in average cases, deaths

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Top health official says country ‘should brace itself’ for a pick-up of the pandemic. FMTNews France

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PARIS: The numbers of new coronavirus cases and deaths in France reported on Wednesday were higher than the daily average seen over the last week, as health officials warned of a possible second wave of the respiratory disease. Confirmed Covid-19 cases were up by 663, at 169,473, versus 475 on Tuesday and a daily average of 536 over the last seven days.Top health official Jerome Salomon told Le Figaro newspaper that the country “should brace itself for a pick-up of the pandemic, even for a second wave”.That figure is almost twice as high as the daily average of 18 seen over the last seven days.France has the sixth-largest death toll from the coronavirus in the world.

 

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