PARIS (Reuters) – French health authorities on Monday reported 6,158 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, sharply down from Saturday’s record high of 10,561 and Sunday’s tally of 7,183.
The Monday figure always tends to dip as there are fewer tests conducted on Sundays.
The seven-day moving average of new infections, which smoothes out reporting irregularities, stood at 8,324, a record for a 28th day in a row, versus a low of 272 on May 27, two weeks after the country ended its two-month long lockdown.
The number of people in France who have died from COVID-19 infections rose by 34 to 30,950. The cumulative number of cases now totals 387,252.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Jan Harvey)
