Public Health France announced that 5,400 new cases of infection with the coronavirus had been recorded in the past 24 hours. This figure is close to that of Saturday. The test positivity rate continues to increase.

5,413 new cases of coronavirus contamination were confirmed on Sunday by Public Health France. The test positivity rate (number of people tested positive divided by the number of people tested) continues to increase, to 4.1% over the last seven days, against 4% on Saturday and 3.6% on Wednesday. The number of foci of infection under investigation increased from 40 in 24 hours to 346.

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Since the start of the epidemic 30,606 people have died in France, or four more in 24 hours, including 20,099 in hospitals and 10,507 (data from Thursday) in social and medico-social establishments.