FILE PHOTO: Yvette Lornay, 91, receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Hector Berlioz EHPAD (care homes and day centres for elderly people) as France begins vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bobigny, France, December 30, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - The French health ministry reported 19,927 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours on Thursday, down from Wednesday's more than one-month high of 26,457 but still far from the government's target of less than 5,000 daily additional infections.
France, which has been criticized for a vaccination campaign seen as too slow, did nonetheless see the number of persons hospitalised for the disease decline for the third day running, relieving some stress on the healthcare system.
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