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PARIS (Reuters) – France recorded its biggest increase in coronavirus-related hospitalizations since spring, Health Ministry data showed on Monday.

The number of patients in intensive care units with COVID-19 rose by 117 to 1,749, the largest increase since March-April, when the number of ICUs increased by more than 100 people a day for several days.

The number of people hospitalized with the virus increased by 470 people to 9,860, the biggest one-day increase since March 29. Compared to a week ago, the number of COVID-19 patients increased by more than 18 percent, the largest increase in a week. . -Increased week this year.

France’s Health Minister said last week that France had entered the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic. On average, France registers nearly 30,000 new cases every day.

(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by David Goodman)