France reports its second-highest number of new Covid-19 cases on record

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French health authorities reported 8,577 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the second-highest number of daily additional infections on record since the disease started to spread in the country at the end of the winter, Reuters reports.

The number of people in France who have died from Covid-19 infections increased by 30, to 30,794, after a rise of 38 on Tuesday. The cumulative number of cases now totals 344,101.

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