France's new daily COVID-19 infections remained above the record 18,000 threshold for the second day, while the number of people treated in hospital for the disease was up
Hospitals in the Paris region moved into emergency mode on Thursday, cancelling staff holidays and postponing non-essential operations, as coronavirus patients made up close to half of all patients in intensive care units .
According to French media, the Health Minister is expected to put other major cities - including Lyon and Lille - on maximum COVID-19 alert, a level reached by Paris and Marseille that triggers new measures to curb the circulation of the coronavirus in those cities. Italy registered 4,458 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, the first time the country has exceeded 4,000 cases in a single day since mid-April.
There were also 22 COVID-related deaths on Thursday against 31 the day before -- far fewer than at the height of the pandemic in Italy in March and April.In France, the number of people in hospital for COVID-19 stood at a three-month high of 7,624 on a national level, an increase of 88 over 24 hours. That total is still lower than an April 14 peak of 32,292 but up versus an Aug. 29 low of 4,530.
The number of people in France who have died from COVID-19 rose by 76, a figure higher than the seven-day moving average of 73, and now stands at 32,521.
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