France set a new national record for COVID-19 on Wednesday with 208,000 new infections recorded over 24 hours with a post-Christmas surge in cases causing alarm in the government.
According to figures given by Health Minister Olivier Veran to a parliamentary hearing, the number of cases jumped by 15 percent since Tuesday when a record 179,807 new infections were reported, and had doubled since Saturday.
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