Health officials in France on Tuesday activated an emergency plan on the Mediterranean island of Corsica as a fourth wave of Covid infections spread across the country.

France imposes new Covid restrictions to curb rising cases

For the second time in two days, France reported over 7,000 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry on Thursday said. France reported 7,157 new infections, which is just shy of record 7,578 cases confirmed on March 31 during the lockdown.

France reports over 7,000 new coronavirus cases for second consecutive day

France reported 7,379 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday, the most since lockdown, in what the health ministry described as an exponential surge just days before millions of children are due to return to school for the first time since March.

France sees nearly 7,400 new daily coronavirus cases in exponential surge