PARIS (Reuters) – France may be experiencing 100,000 new COVID-19 cases per day – two times more than the latest figures – Professor Jean-Franois Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on the pandemic, told RTL radio on Monday.
“There is probably more than 50,000 cases per day. We estimate, on the scientific committee, that we are more in the region of 100,000 cases per day,” said Delfraissy.
France registered a record 52,010 new confirmed coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as a second wave of cases surges through Europe. [nL1N2HG0O3]
The new cases took the French total to 1,138,507, with France now ahead of Argentina and Spain to register the world’s fifth highest number of cases after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
