With this new value, the total number of infected people in the country since the beginning of the pandemic crisis rises to 1,331,984, according to data provided by the French Public Health Agency.
The same data indicated that a total of 36,565 people have died to date in French territory from the covid-19 disease, including 256 in the last 24 hours.
The index of positivity in diagnostic tests is now at 20%, more than the 19.4% and 18.6% indicated in the last two days and considerably more than the 4.5% recorded in the beginning of September, indicated the same entity on its ‘online’ portal.
In French hospitals, 16,258 people were hospitalized due to the new coronavirus in the last seven days, of which 2,401 are in intensive care units.
French health officials have indicated today, and unchanged from the previous day, that there are 2,448 active sources of contagion under investigation.
Among the active outbreaks under investigation, 649 of them are in senior homes and homes.
Of the 101 departments in the country, 96 remain in a highly vulnerable situation.
In view of the worsening of all indicators related to the pandemic and the need to deal with a second wave of the covid-19 disease, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced on Wednesday that the country would return to a new confinement on a national scale , as it entered into force today at midnight.
The covid-19 disease pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 45.1 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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