By Agence France-Presse
France has recorded 292 new coronavirus deaths, bringing the total to 2,606 since the first was reported in February, the country's national health service director Jerome Salomon said Sunday.
This handout picture released and taken on March 29, 2020, by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (Ministere des Armees) shows medical staff preparing a Covid-19 affected patient upon his arrival onboard a NH90 Caiman helicopter of the 1st RHC at Grenoble Le Versoud airport, after being evacuated from a hospital in Besancon, northeastern France, to the university hospital (CHU) of Grenoble, eastern France, as part of the Operation Resilience amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Handout / MINISTERE DES ARMEES / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
Among the nearly 19,000 patients now hospitalized, 4,632 are in intensive care, Salomon said.
The toll over the past 24 hours was below the 319 deaths reported on Saturday, but the figures include only deaths reported in hospitals, and not at retirement homes or assisted-living facilities.
This handout picture released and taken on March 29, 2020, by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (Ministere des Armees) shows medical staff preparing a Covid-19 affected patient upon his arrival onboard a NH90 Caiman helicopter of the 1st RHC at Grenoble Le Versoud airport, after being evacuated from a hospital in Besancon, northeastern France, to the university hospital (CHU) of Grenoble, eastern France, as part of the Operation Resilience amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Handout / MINISTERE DES ARMEES / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
Among the nearly 19,000 patients now hospitalized, 4,632 are in intensive care, Salomon said.
The toll over the past 24 hours was below the 319 deaths reported on Saturday, but the figures include only deaths reported in hospitals, and not at retirement homes or assisted-living facilities.