This Wednesday, the coronavirus toll in France shows 56,648 deaths since the start of the epidemic, or 296 more deaths than the day before.
In addition, more than 14,500 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours.
This Wednesday, the data published by Public Health France show 56,648 deaths from the coronavirus in France since the start of the epidemic, or 296 additional deaths over the last 24 hours.
In addition, more than 14,500 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified over the same period (14,595), bringing the number of cases identified in total in France to 2,324,216 since the start of the epidemic.
This result is still well above the government's target of around 5,000 contaminations as of December 15.
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Over the last seven days, 8,505 new hospitalizations have been recorded in the country, including 1,111 in intensive care.