France on Thursday reported 23,770 new corona cases and 348 deaths in hospital. France's Public Health Agency recorded a total of 3,130,629 corona cases and 74,800 deaths related to the disease.

According to the Health Ministry, 1,349,517 injections had been carried out since the start of the vaccination campaign, including 117,734 in 24 hours. The regions of Ile-de-France, Hauts-de-France and Bourgogne-Franche-Comte said Thursday that the appointments for a first injection of the corona vaccine would be postponed due to difficulties of supply of Pfizer doses. The government is considering to impose additional measures in the coming days to halt the alarming surge in the new variants.

In a press conference earlier on Thursday, Health Minister Olivier Veran said that the health situation was getting worse as the variants of virus are actively circulating in France. Veran said, "The fact that the variants are still spreading suggests that the curfew and all the measures are certainly useful but probably insufficient."

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