The coronavirus outbreak has claimed another 753 lives in the last 24 hours in France, bringing the country's total fatalities to 17,920, AFP quoted top French health official Jerome Salomon as saying on Thursday.
But the number of virus patients hospitalised dropped by 474 and the number in critical care declined by 209, the health ministry's number two official said.
“The spread of the virus is stabilising at a high level,” he said.
Among the dead were 11,060 who died in hospitals and 6,860 in care homes or other establishments, he said.
