France reports biggest daily jump in new Covid cases since MarchAugust 29, 2020 - 13:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - As coronavirus cases in France continue to climb, President Emmanuel Macron said authorities are doing everything "to prevent, obviously, a national reconfinement." On Friday, August 28, French health authorities said the coronavirus epidemic is "growing exponentially." They reported 7,379 new daily cases -- the biggest increase since late March, CNN reports. has only been one day with more cases recorded in 24 hours, on March 31st, which was during the height of the epidemic in France. The daily increase in cases has tripled in less than a week, according to French health authorities. Macron said he had learned enough about coronavirus over the past eight months to not "totally exclude” reconfinement. "Nothing can be theoretically excluded, but we are put ourselves in a situation where we can do everything we can to prevent it," he said. On Thursday, France declared 19 more areas around the country as coronavirus “red zones”, bringing its total to 21. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |