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French minister hopes COVID wave will peak within days

by Reuters
Tuesday, 25 January 2022 07:37 GMT

PARIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Health Minister Olivier Veran told LCI TV on Tuesday he hoped France would reach the peak of the current COVID-19 wave in the next few days.

Almost 400 people in France who were hospitalised due to a COVID-19 infection died over the past 24 hours, official data showed on Monday, the highest figure since April.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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