Covid today France, 30 thousand infections in the last 24 hours

“Today we will announce 30 thousand infections in the last 24 hours”. The French Minister of Health Olivier Veran said this to the National Assembly, according to reports from ‘Le Parisien’. “It is an important increase that attests to how we are now in the fifth wave”, added the minister, advocating an upcoming extension of the campaign for the third dose. A week ago, the daily data of Santé France recorded 19,778 infections. For the whole of last week, there were about 20,000 cases every 24 hours, an average that hadn’t been recorded since mid-August. On 11 August the bar of 30 thousand cases had been exceeded.