One in five tests carried out in France to detect the new coronavirus is positive, health officials said today, indicating that in the last 24 hours 224 people died and 35,641 new cases were reported.
French health authorities have indicated that, with 35,641 new positive cases, the number of infected people totals more than 1.3 million, while the total number of deaths reaches 36,788.
In the past seven days, 16,865 people have been admitted to hospitals due to covid-19, of which 2,507 are in intensive care.
France, which has almost 2,500 outbreaks identified, of which almost 700 are in nursing homes, has 96 of its 100 departments in vulnerable situations.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 45.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
The United States of America is the country with the most deaths (229,710 and also with more confirmed cases of infection (more than nine million).
In Europe, the highest number of fatalities is registered in the United Kingdom (46,555 dead, more than one million cases), followed by Italy (38,618 dead, more than 679 thousand cases).
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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