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title: "France's health body warns of resurgence of Covid-19 in the country"
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# France's health body warns of resurgence of Covid-19 in the country

> PARIS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - France's national health body warned on Friday of a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the country, and urged people to continue to get vaccinated to protect themselves against the virus.

By Reuters · Published 19 September 2022, 16:46 SAST

## Content

The Sante Publique France (SPF) body said that during the week of Sept 5-Sept 11, there had been 186 confirmed COVID cases for every 100,000 people in France - a figure up 12% versus the previous week - representing an average of around 18,000 new cases per day.

Earlier this week, Emer Cooke - the executive director for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) watchdog - told a Reuters Next Newsmaker interview that people in Europe should take whatever COVID-19 booster vaccine is available to them, given expectations of an autumn rise in infections.

New infections have been steadily rising since 10 days and the seven-day moving average of daily new cases reached an almost five-weeks high of 24,042 on Thursday.

(Reporting by Myriam Rivet; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta/Benoit Van Overstraeten)