France’s daily coronavirus infection rate is on the rise again, as more than 1,130 new cases were reported Friday, making July’s figures similar…
France’s daily coronavirus infection rate is on the rise again, as more than 1,130 new cases were reported Friday, making July’s figures similar to those seen in May, when France first started to ease its strict lockdown measures.
France has reported over 217,000 coronavirus cases and more than 30,000 deaths since cases were first reported in the country during early March, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Health authorities have warned that France is heading in the wrong direction as the infection rate is yet again accelerating, meaning that the virus has not started to peter out.
“We have thus erased much of the progress that we’d achieved in the first weeks of lockdown-easing,” a health official told the Associated Press, adding that people have not taken the same necessary precautions during the summer months.
