PARIS (Reuters) – The number of new, confirmed COVID-19 cases in France rose by 9,406 over the last 24 hours, the country’s health ministry said on Friday, to stand at a total of 363,350.
The number of COVID-19 deaths also climbed by 40 over the last 24 hours, to reach a total of 30,893 casualties.
France’s has the seventh-highest COVID death toll in the world.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Editing by Franklin Paul)