France reports record 499 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours
Caption: A street cleaner clean the sidewalk of a street in Paris, on March 31, 2020 on the fifteenth day of a lockdown aimed at stopping/curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).–AFP
France on Tuesday reported its highest daily number of deaths from COVID-19 since the coronavirus epidemic began, saying 499 more people had died in the hospital to bring the toll to 3,523.
There are now 22,757 people hospitalised in France with COVID-19, with 5,565 of them in intensive care, health official Jerome Salomon told reporters in his daily update.
The French death toll includes only those who died in hospital and not those who died at home or in old people’s homes.