PARIS (FRANCE) – France said on Saturday that 224 more people had died from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 36,788. The number of confirmed cases increase by 35,641.
That compared to just under 48,000 confirmed cases reported the previous day and a record daily high of 52,010 last Sunday. The total number of cases now stands at 1.36 million.
A new national lockdown was implemented on Friday in France.
There were 2,507 people in intensive care units among new hospitalisations in the past seven days, the data on Saturday showed.