Europe 1 with AFP 6:46 p.m., July 08, 2022

The threshold of 150,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 was crossed on Friday in France, where the epidemic has been raging since the beginning of 2020. The bar of 140,000 had been reached in March.

The threshold of 150,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 was crossed on Friday in France, where the epidemic has been raging since the beginning of 2020, against a backdrop of a sharp increase in reinfections, according to figures from Public Health France.

With 74 people dead in hospital from the disease in 24 hours, the death toll has topped 150,000.

The 140,000 mark was crossed on March 11, two years after the start of the pandemic in France.

France is facing, at the beginning of July, a seventh wave of Covid-19

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