France records nearly 5,500 new Covid-19 cases, highest figure since mid-April

The French Health Ministry said it had registered 5,429 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, a new post-lockdown high and a level of new infections not seen since the height of the epidemic in early April. The total number of people infected with the virus in France now stands at 253,587. Figures for the cumulative death toll […]