PARIS (Reuters) – New confirmed coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours jumped to 13,713 on Tuesday, from 3,411 on Monday and 8,083 last Tuesday, health ministry data showed.
On the 11th day after the government eased a nationwide lockdown, the number of people in intensive care however fell by 110 to 3,088, bringing it closer to a 2,500-3,000 government threshold that is one of the conditions for further lockdown easing.
(Reporting by GV De Clercq, Editing by Franklin Paul)
