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France has registered over 400 thousand new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
According to data from the Public Health Agency, with 400,851 new cases in the last 24 hours, the number of cases so far has reached 16,601,498 while with 235 deaths the number of victims from COVID-19 reached 128,347.
28,457 people continue to be treated in hospitals, of which 3,792 in intensive care.
A statement from the French High Health Authority said that the use of “Paxlovid”, a drug produced by the American company Pfizer, for the treatment of COVID-19 had been approved.
According to the news that the French press has based on the close circle of the French Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, it is said that 500 thousand boxes of this medicine have been ordered and that it will arrive in the country within a week.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the European regulator of medicines, as a result of the assessment made last month had recommended that the drug, although approved, be used in emergency situations in adults.
Pfizer, in December announced that the drug reduces by 88 percent the risk of death or hospitalization of patients with COVID-19.
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