PARIS, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in France spiked by 20,489 in a 24-hour span, and 867 patients succumbed to the disease, 522 of them in retirement homes, according to official data released on Tuesday.
The cumulative number of people who have caught the virus in France rose to 2,680,239. The number of coronavirus-linked fatalities stood at 66,282.
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