⁍ France registered a record 42,032 new cases, taking the total to 1,041,075.
⁍ The United States has 8.4 million cases, followed by India with 7.8 million, Brazil with 5.3 million, Russia with 1.5 million and Argentina and Spain with each just over one million.
⁍ France also registered 298 new deaths on Friday, taking the total to 34,508.
– “We will have to live with this virus at least till next summer.” So says French President Emmanuel Macron in regard to the novel coronavirus, which has killed at least 34 people in France and infected more than 1 million people worldwide. The latest numbers, per Reuters: France had a record 42,032 new cases in the 24-hour period ending Friday, bringing the total confirmed cases to 1,041,075. The US has 8.4 million cases, followed by India with 7.8 million, Brazil with 5.3 million, Russia with 1.5 million, Argentina and Spain with each just over 1 million. On Thursday, the daily case count rose above 40,000 for the first time, after breaking through 20,000 on Oct. 9 and through 10,000 on Sept. 9 as the virus spread rapidly and France started testing more after summer. During the March-May lockdown, the highest number of infections in one day had been 7,578 on March 31, though doctors say the number was probably much higher as testing then was mainly limited to hospitals and retirement homes. France also registered 298 new deaths on Friday, taking the total to 34,508. The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 jumped by 976 to 15,008, the biggest one-day increase since early April. Mid-April 32,300 people were hospitalized with the virus. At the height of the epidemic mid-April, 7,150 people were in ICUs.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-france-casualties/france-becomes-7th-country-with-more-than-1-million-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN27904T