France reports record 588 more coronavirus deaths
Caption: Emergency workers escort patients infected by the COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, to the Saint-Louis hospital in La Rochelle, on April 3, 2020, after being evacuated from eastern France to Poitiers by a TGV high-speed medical train.–AFP
France on Friday reported 588 more coronavirus deaths in hospital, its biggest toll over the last 24 hours since the epidemic began.
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.
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.