A jump in coronavirus cases will put France under huge pressure in coming days, its prime minister said on Friday, after reporting its highest daily death toll, with officials fearing hospitals in and around Paris could be saturated in 48 hours.
Paris and its suburbs now account for over a quarter of the 29,591 confirmed coronavirus infections in French hospitals, with almost 1,300 now in intensive care.
Highlighting the disease's brutality, a 16-year-old girl with no underlying health conditions died of the virus on Thursday.
The death toll nationwide stood at 1,696, with signs that the virus is also becoming endemic in the southwest. "The epidemic wave that is sweeping France is a wave that is extremely high and it is putting the entire