The number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections jumped over one million on Friday, making France the seventh country to reach that milestone.
FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker performs an olfactory test to a patient at a coronavirus disease testing centre in Nice, France, October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
The United States has 8.4 million cases, followed by India with 7.8 million, Brazil with 5.3 million, Russia with 1.5 million and Argentina and Spain with each just over one million. During the March-May lockdown, the highest number of infections in one day had been 7,578 on March 31, though doctors say the number was probably much higher as testing then was mainly limited to hospitals and retirement homes.The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 jumped by 976 to 15,008, the biggest one-day increase since early April. Mid-April 32,300 people were hospitalised with the virus.
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