The total number of confirmed has reached 1,466,433 in France, the fifth-highest total in the world after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia.

418 more people died due to coronavirus pandemic, rising the country’s death toll to 37,435.

17,683 people who tested positive for the virus are being treated in hospital, of those, 2,678 are in critical condition, the Ministry noted.

According to a team of French epidemiologists, under 5% of the total population of France, or around 2.8 million people, may have been infected with COVID-19.