New Covid-19 infections in France have risen by more than 25 per cent compared to a week ago after rising more than 24pc a day earlier, as a downward trend that had started late January reversed.
The health ministry registered 72,399 new infections, while the seven-day moving average of new infections also rose, for the fourth day in a row, by nearly 16pc to more than 60,000, Reuters reported.
New hospitalisations with Covid-19 — which tend to lag new cases by about two weeks — continued falling, by 7pc to just over 21,000.
