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PARIS – France recorded 3,776 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, marking a spike after the blockade and bringing the total to 225,043, but President Emmanuel Macron again ruled the application of the national blockade.
“All signals continue to increase and transmission of the virus is spreading among all affected age groups, especially young adults,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
He said the virus is active in Paris and Marseille, the two largest cities in and around France.
Some medical experts are involved in the effect of the wild and maskless celebrations of Paris St Germain enthusiasts on the street of the Champs-Elysées in central Paris after their football club reached the Champions League final on Tuesday.
Officials from the city of Paris are also involved in the big fan rallies expected on Sunday, when Paris St Germain will play Against Olympique Lyonnais, French club, or Bayern Munich in Germany.
Despite the outbreak of infections, Macron told Paris Match mag in an interview that “local strategies” were preferable to national blockade, which he said would cause abundant “collateral damage.”
The seven-day moving average of the case count, which eliminates irregularity reports, is now 2621, above the 2500 threshold for the first time since 19 April, when France implemented one of Europe’s strictest blockades.
The number of other people hospitalized decreased from 17 to 4,806 and resuscitation from 6 to 374, reflecting the preponderance of other younger people among new cases who are more likely to be asymptomatic or not seriously ill.
Both figures have been in an unbroken downward trend since early April, this trend has slowed over the past two weeks.
The death toll increased from 17 to 30,468, after an increase of 22 on Tuesday and 19 on Monday.
(Report through Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing via Gareth Jones)
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