France has announced more than 50,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a new record.
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There were 52,010 new infections on Sunday, the highest in a single-day period since widespread testing was introduced in the country.
Some 17 per cent of the people who were tested were found to have the virus, the data showed.
Case numbers have been increasing dramatically for weeks, with several records announced over the past seven days alone.
France said on Friday it had recorded more than one million cases since the start of the pandemic.
More than 34,700 people have died of the virus.
New rules have applied in two-thirds of France since Saturday, meaning people can only go out at night if they have good reason to do so.
The regulation applies in 54 French administrative regions, or departments, and in French Polynesia.
Australian Associated Press