A Covid-19 test, August 26, 2020. - Mathieu Pattier / SIPA

More than 5,400 new cases of infection with the coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, Public Health France announced on Sunday, a figure close to that of the day before. The progression was stronger on Wednesday and Thursday.

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.

30,606 people died in France

The number of outbreaks under investigation has increased from 40 in 24 hours, to 346. Since the start of the epidemic 30,606 people have died in France, or four more in 24 hours, including 20,099 within hospitals and 10,507 (Thursday data) in social and medico-social establishments.

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