Among the recent deaths was that of a 16-year-old girl, France's youngest coronavirus victim to date.
A nurse collects a sample from a person at a Covid-19 screening-drive, on March 27, 2020 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, as the country is under lockdown to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. Picture: BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
After 365 people died and more than 2,300 people were hospitalised in France in a single day, the military sent a plane on Friday to evacuate six patients from the hard-hit east of the country where hospitals are overstretched. The premier warned the country must “remain extremely mobilised” in the fight against the epidemic that has so far officially claimed 1,696 lives in France.
The country has some 14,000 coronavirus patients in hospital, with 548 placed in intensive care just on Thursday. Over 3,300 are in a critical condition. On Thursday, the government used a high-speed TGV train to evacuate 20 patients from the Alsace region bordering Germany and Switzerland to help relieve overstretched facilities there.The Ile-de-France region around Paris is increasingly under strain, with 1,300 of its 1,500 intensive care beds reserved for coronavirus patients already occupied.
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