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France records 20,262 new cases, 159 deaths in 24 hours
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The Siasat | 26/12/2020 08:51 AM | Click to read full article
France has recorded 20,262 new coronavirus cases in a 24-hour span, raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases since the start of the epidemic to 2,547,771, according to figures released by health authorities.
A good sign is that the numbers of both hospitalized Covid-19 patients and those in intensive care kept dropping, data showed.