The number of COVID-19 infections in France reached 1,000,369 as of Thursday while a death toll of 34,075, reports from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University showed.
France has become the second European country whose COVID-19 cases surpassed 1 million mark after Spain did that on Wednesday.
French government spokesman Gabriel Attal, on Wednesday, said more French cities would move to maximum alert for coronavirus, where a curfew would be imposed.
Europe has been been confronting the second wave of the pandemic with many countries in the region witnessing a surge in daily infections. Among them, Britain recorded 26,688 daily coronavirus cases on Wednesday when Poland’s daily number of COVID-19 cases exceeded 10,000.
Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga announced late Tuesday that she tested positive for COVID-19. On Wednesday, German Health Minister Jens Spahn was reported to have tested positive.
