On Thursday, France reported over 30,000 people tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours for the first time, official data showed.
France’s public health agency said that a total 30,621 confirmed cases of Covid-19 had been detected in the past 24 hours, a record daily total.
The number of people who have died from the novel coronavirus over the same 24-hour period stood at 88, bringing the total number of deaths in France since the start of the pandemic to 33,125, the agency said.
The so-called positivity rate the proportion of people infected out of the total number of those tested rose to 12.6 percent on Thursday from 12.2 percent on Wednesday.
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered a nighttime curfew for Paris and eight other French cities to contain the spread of Covid-19 as the daily new infection rates reached alarming record levels.
Health minister Olivier Veran said that France currently has some 5,800 beds on intensive care wards.
