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France reports record 588 more coronavirus deaths in hospital

Published April 3, 2020
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France on Friday reported 588 more coronavirus deaths in hospital, its biggest toll over the last 24 hours since the epidemic began, AFP reports.

The new deaths brought to 5,091 the total number of people who have died in hospital of Covid-19 in France, top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters.

Medical staff carry a patient infected with the novel coronavirus in an emergency vehicle at the Saint-Jean train station in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on April 3, 2020, after an evacuation on a medicalised TGV high-speed train from eastern France, on the eighteenth day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection in France. — AFP
Medical staff carry a patient infected with the novel coronavirus in an emergency vehicle at the Saint-Jean train station in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on April 3, 2020, after an evacuation on a medicalised TGV high-speed train from eastern France, on the eighteenth day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection in France. — AFP

There is no daily toll for those who died of Covid-19 in old people's homes in France.

But Salomon said that a total of 1,416 people had died in such establishments from Covid-19 in the epidemic. This brings the total French toll to at least 6,507.

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