France on Thursday reported that 365 people, including a 16-year-old girl, had died from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours, the country's highest daily toll, AFP reports.

Top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters that a total of 1,696 people had died in hospital in France from the virus, emphasising that the toll does not include those who died at home or at retirement homes.

An opera tenor singer performs the song O sole mio from his window in Paris on March 26, 2020, on the evening of the tenth day of a strict lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. — AFP
An opera tenor singer performs the song O sole mio from his window in Paris on March 26, 2020, on the evening of the tenth day of a strict lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. — AFP

He said that 29,155 people had tested positive for the virus so far in France, adding that the real number of cases was likely far higher as testing was reserved for high-risk patients.

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