France registered 25,000 new daily COVID-19 cases - minister

France registered roughly 25,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, 3,000 more than a week ago, figures confirming the recent upward trend of the disease, French Health Minister Oliver Veran said.

Veran told a press conference that over the past week, France had lost all the progress it made over the two previous weeks due to the new, more contagious variants of the disease.