Number of patients in intensive care also decreases for the third consecutive day. FMTNews Covid19France
Two medical staffs sit in an ambulance before evacuating a patient infected with Covid-19 last month.
The French health authorities said in a statement that 345 more people had died in hospitals and 290 in nursing homes – 635 over the last 24 hours – to bring the total death toll to 13,832.“A very high plateau for the epidemic appears to have been reached but the epidemic remains very active,” top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters. “We must absolutely remain vigilant.”
For the third consecutive day, the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care was down, with 121 fewer people in such units for a total of 6,883. Salomon said that if the plateau trend continues it means “we have succeeded in reaching a first step together and the lockdown is showing its first effects”.
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