Paris, Sep 16, 2020, SPA -- French health authorities reported new 9,784 confirmed coronavirus cases today, on Wednesday, the third-highest number of daily additional infections on record since the disease started to spread in the country at the end of the winter, according to Reuters. The number of people in France who have died from COVID-19 infections was up by 46, at 31,045 and the cumulative number of cases now totals 404,888. --SPA 20:29 LOCAL TIME 17:29 GMT 0022 www.spa.gov.sa/w1412095