France sees further drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations

France on Saturday reported a further decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations, nearly two weeks after the government eased lockdown measures. 

Coronavirus infection rates have slowed further and the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital and intensive care continued to fall, health ministry figures showed, a sign that social distancing is keeping the contagion in check for now.

Health ministry data on Saturday showed the number of confirmed cases rose by 250 to 144,806 over 24 hours, an increase of 0.2 percent, below the average 0.3 percent increase of the past seven days and well below the average 0.8 percent increase seen in the last week of lockdown.

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