{"id":21842,"date":"2020-08-24T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=21842"},"modified":"2020-08-24T10:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T07:35:36","slug":"france-reports-record-covid-19-cases-since-may-lockdown-as-global-infections-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/vauen\/france-reports-record-covid-19-cases-since-may-lockdown-as-global-infections-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"France reports record COVID-19 cases since May lockdown as global infections rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>France reported its highest daily level of coronavirus cases since the end of a two-month lockdown period in May. The French health ministry on Sunday reported 4,897 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, which is a jump from Saturday&#8217;s numbers when 3,602 cases were reported. The death toll also increased by one, bringing the total number of fatalities to 30,513.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers come as France&#8217;s health minister Olivier Veran said the virus is circulating four times more among people under the age of 40 than among people aged over 65. In comments to France&#8217;s Journal Du Dimanche (JDD) published on Sunday he said gatherings and parties where social distancing rules were ignored was mainly to blame. He also warned the COVID-19 was on the rise among the elderly too.<\/p>\n<p>Italy also reported a steady rise in cases. The country recorded 1,210 cases on Sunday, which is a high increase compared to 642 cases on Wednesday. Like France, Italy has ruled out a general return to lockdown. The United Kingdom also reported an uptick in cases.On Sunday, 1,041 new cases were recorded. But it is down from 1,288 cases on Saturday. It&#8217;s the fourth consecutive day that new infections have been over 1,000 in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>With school children set to return to classrooms in September, the UK&#8217;s chief medical officers said children are more likely to be harmed if they do not return to school than if they catch the virus. It comes as a Public Health England report said infections were &#8221;uncommon&#8221; in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/08\/23\/france-reports-record-covid-19-cases-since-may-lockdown-as-global-infections-rise\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France reported its highest daily level of coronavirus cases since the end of a two-month lockdown period in May. The French health ministry on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[1879,88,600,3372,1280],"class_list":["post-21842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-cases","tag-covid-19","tag-france","tag-record","tag-summer","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/laake_corona.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21843,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions\/21843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}