{"id":87449,"date":"2020-08-13T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=87449"},"modified":"2020-08-13T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:09:41","slug":"france-sees-most-new-daily-virus-cases-since-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=87449","title":{"rendered":"France sees most new daily virus cases since May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/France-sees-most-new-daily-virus-cases-since-May.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/France-sees-most-new-daily-virus-cases-since-May.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Aug 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 2,500 new coronavirus cases were registered in France in 24 hours in the sharpest increase since May, government data showed on Wednesday, as officials said indicators were \u201cclearly worsening\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of 600,000 tests over the past week, more than 11,600 were positive, the health ministry\u2019s DGS public health division said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 2.2 percent, the weekly rate of positives was up from 1.6 percent the week before, confirming \u201cincreased viral circulation\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndicators used for tracking the epidemic on French territory have clearly worsened in recent days,\u201d the DGS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With August traditionally a month when many French people take weeks of summer holiday, \u201cit\u2019s imperative that we keep up our efforts to avoid the epidemic picking up again, individually and collectively, everywhere and at all times\u201d, the DGS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials identified 18 new virus clusters in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 896 nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the number of patients in intensive care dropped slightly to 379, a level relatively steady since late July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 30,400 people have died of coronavirus in France since the epidemic began, the third-heaviest toll in Europe after Britain and Italy. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Aug 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 2,500 new coronavirus cases were registered in France in 24 hours in the sharpest increase since May, government data showed on Wednesday, as officials said indicators were \u201cclearly worsening\u201d. Of 600,000 tests over the past week, more than 11,600 were positive, the health ministry\u2019s DGS public health division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":87450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}