French Public Health Agency reported on Tuesday 19,778 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, a record high since Aug. 25 this year when the country reported 23,706 new cases, APA reports.
France now has a total of 7,310,664 COVID-19 infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country.
France also recorded 48 additional deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 now reached 118,271.
The numbers of new hospital admissions and critical condition patients are also on rise. According to the French Public Health Agency, 7,535 patients are currently hospitalized, 647 more than the day before, and 1,277 patients are in intensive care units, including the 135 ones in the past 24 hours.
French government's spokesperson Gabriel Attal said Tuesday morning that France is "on alert" with the resurgence of COVID-19, but no lockdown is foreseen.
Even though France has a high vaccination rate and "a less bad situation" than its neighboring countries, Attal insisted that it requires "an absolute vigilance" in the country.
He asked eligible people to get a booster shot and warned that a booster shot might be one day mandatory to validate one's health pass if they are over 50 years old, as it's going to be for people over 65 years old starting from Dec. 15.
France has approved the use of vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.
In September, France announced that people who have received two doses of Chinese vaccines Sinovac or Sinopharm are eligible to get their health pass after the administration of a complementary dose of a messenger (mRNA) vaccine.
By Nov. 15, a total of 51,555,017 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in France.
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