FILE PHOTO: A lone jogger looks at gendarmes on horses as he makes his way on the Champs de Mars in Paris during a lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
April 8, 2020
PARIS (Reuters) – The number of people who died from coronavirus infections in French hospitals climbed by 8% in a day to a cumulative total of 7,632, state health agency director Jerome Salomon told a news conference on Wednesday.
But he added the day’s figures were incomplete as authorities were not able to register nursing homes data, which account for more than 30% of total fatalities, due to “technical problems”.
The total death toll, including Tuesday’s nursing homes’ figures, is up 5% at 10,869.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Chris Reese)
