{"id":277338,"date":"2020-12-02T04:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=277338"},"modified":"2020-12-02T04:04:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:04:40","slug":"france-suffers-setback-in-fight-vs-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/02\/france-suffers-setback-in-fight-vs-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"France suffers setback in fight vs. Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_277339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277339\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clovis-wood-photography-pfjecifs6hM-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277339\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clovis-wood-photography-pfjecifs6hM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clovis-wood-photography-pfjecifs6hM-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clovis-wood-photography-pfjecifs6hM-unsplash-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clovis-wood-photography-pfjecifs6hM-unsplash-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clovis-wood-photography-pfjecifs6hM-unsplash-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-277339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infections more than doubled to 8,803 after a substantial drop to 4,005 on Monday, which had also been a drop of half over Sunday&#8217;s numbers. (File photo: Clovis Wood Photography\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>PARIS<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 France recorded a sharply higher number of infections Tuesday as it continued to make its way through the second wave of Covid-19, although the figures are still well below those of a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Infections more than doubled to 8,803 after a substantial drop to 4,005 on Monday, which had also been a drop of half over Sunday&#8217;s numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Total infections stand at 2,230,571 since record-keeping began in March, according to the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Fatalities fell to 365 from 408 on Monday. The official death toll since March stands at 53,506.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitalizations fell as well, to 9,047 from 9,256. A total of 1,309 people remain in intensive care, down by 35 from the day before.<\/p>\n<p>The positivity rate in France dropped slightly to 10.8 percent from 10.9 percent on Monday, a number that continues to trend downward.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, the death toll from Covid-19 stands at over 1.47 million since the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China in late December last year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of infections totals more than 63.6 million, according to the latest figures from US-based Johns Hopkins University.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS\u00a0\u2013 France recorded a sharply higher number of infections Tuesday as it continued to make its way through the second &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":277339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277340,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277338\/revisions\/277340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}