The number of new coronavirus cases in France compared to a week earlier have risen for the third day in a row, with the health ministry reporting 22,371 new cases, compared to 21,231 last Saturday.

According to Reuters, Health Minister Olivier Veran said earlier that the trend in the data over the past few days is not good and France would decide on tightening the curfew or locking down partially in regions where the virus is spreading the quickest, notably on the Mediterranean coast around Nice.

The health ministry also reported 183 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals, compared to 571 a day earlier, when the tally included several days of death data in retirement homes.