We have not yet reached the top of the coronaepidemien, says France’s health minister.
France has in the past day registered 833 deaths among persons infected with the coronavirus.
– We have not yet reached the peak of this epidemic, says the French health minister, Olivier Veran, at a press conference Monday.
the Figure is the highest, as the French authorities have notified for a single day, since coronaudbruddet began.
It is because France now is beginning to indicate a total number of coronadødsfald from the country’s hospitals and nursing homes. So far, the authorities have only to know the number of coronapatienter who have died in the hospitals.
At the nation’s hospitals, there has been an increase of about 10 percent in the number of deaths among coronapatienter compared with a day earlier, according to the latest figures.
With Monday’s statement is the total number of coronadødsfald in France, perched on the 8911, since the outbreak began.
Of them is 6494 died in French hospitals, it shall notify the minister, according to news agency Reuters.
In recent days, France has otherwise reported a decline in the number of deaths.
on Sunday announced the authorities, that the 357 people who were infected with the coronavirus, had died in France’s hospitals. The day before, it was 441.
the Number of confirmed smittetilfælde is up on the 98.010. Of them are a little over 70,000 admitted to a hospital. It is good for 5000 more confirmed smittetilfælde compared to a day earlier.
7072 patients are admitted to an intensive care unit at one of France’s hospitals. This is an increase of almost 100 compared to the day before.
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