France sees over 5,000 new Covid-19 cases in a day
French health authorities on Wednesday reported a lot more than 5,000 new coronavirus cases for the previous a day, hitting their highest figure since May days before children return to school nationwide.
Public Health France said it had recorded 5,429 new infections, after 3,304 on Tuesday.
The daily figure has topped 4,000 many times in recent days, prior to the Sept 1 return to school for an incredible number of pupils.
The French public must act in "a spirit of responsibility" to limit the surge in new cases, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on France Inter radio Wednesday morning.
"The state has its share of responsibility... but everyone has to feel just like it's their job to fight the pandemic," Castex added.
On Monday, German health authorities labelled the Ile-de-France region including capital Paris and the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region around Mediterranean port city Marseille "risk zones" for the virus.
Anyone going to Germany from the two regions must submit to a Covid-19 ensure that you quarantine themselves while awaiting the effect.
Blaming "IT problems", Public Health France was struggling to provide the numbers of men and women hospitalised or in intensive care or who had died with the virus in the a day to Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the figures were 4,600 hospital patients and 410 in intensive care. So far at least 30,544 people have been killed by the virus in France. - AFP
