FILE PHOTO: Customers are seen on the terrace of a restaurant before the nightly curfew due to restrictions against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nice, France, October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
PARIS (Reuters) - France registered a record 52,010 new confirmed coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, following a record 45,422 on Saturday, the health ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as a second wave of cases surges through Europe.
The new cases took the total to 1,138,507, with France now ahead of Argentina and Spain to register the world's fifth highest number of cases after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia.
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