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France reports more than 10,000 new Covid cases per day again

Health Ministry reported 10,908 new cases on Friday, taking the total to more than 5.84 million.; the daily new case tally was last over 10,000 at the end of May.

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France reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases again as the rapid spread of the more contagious Delta variant led to a jump in new infections, reports Yahoo! News

The health ministry reported 10,908 new cases on Friday, taking the total to more than 5.84 million. The daily new case tally was last over 10,000 at the end of May.

The seven-day moving average of new cases rose further to 5,795, after jumping over the key threshold of 5,000 on Wednesday.

The closely watched metric - which smoothes out daily reporting irregularities - had risen as high as 42,000 per day in mid-April and fallen back to less than 2,000 per day in late June.

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