French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne receives a booster vaccination dose against Covid-19 in Paris, France, 22 July 2022. EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / POOL MAXPPP OUT 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)