Coronavirus in France: The death toll increased by 762 on a daily basis, more than the 574 reported on Monday. French hospitals registered a single-day loss of 541 coronavirus patients, Salomon said at a daily conference on the epidemic on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
It may still happen this year, but it’s clear the three-week race won’t be starting on June 27 in the Riviera city of Nice as scheduled.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the country's coronavirus lockdown will be extended till May 11.
The total infections detected in hospitals rose by 4.25 per cent to 90,000, slower than Thursday's 5.3 per cent and the number of "confirmed or possible" cases in nursing homes rose to 34,193 from 31,415, said the official.
The coronavirus pandemic continued its rampage in France with 541 additional deaths in hospitals in the last 24 hours, bringing the toll in sanitary establishments to 7,632, Director General of Health Jerome Salomon said.
According to the data provided by a French health official, the overall fatalities in France now stands at 10,328. France decided on March 17 to put its 67 million residents into lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. The measures have been extended until April 15, and are likely to be extended again.
With the total coronavirus fatalities swelling to 8,078 while the number of critically-ill patients increasing less rapidly, French authorities warned that the virus "continues to hit hard," urging people to continue to respect the confinement.
France on Saturday evacuated 112 French citizens stranded in Kerala and Tamil Nadu in a special Air India flight. The Embassy of France had made a request to the Kerala government to facilitate the journey of the French citizens stranded due to the lockdown announced by the central government to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus.
Coronavirus cases worldwide are standing on the verge of crossing the 1.1 million mark while the death toll approaches 60,000. On Friday, USA and France were the countries with the highest number of casualties with 1,321 and 1,120 respectively. Total deaths in the United States have crossed the 7,000 mark while in France there have been 6,507 deaths thus far.
The number of coronavirus cases in the world has now crossed the 1 million mark while the death toll stands at 53,190. It has taken little over 3 months for the mysterious new strain of coronavirus to spread its influence across the world and infect 1,015,466 people. Major economic powers in the world like the USA, UK, France and Italy find themselves in the thick of things with a high number of cases and deaths reported in these countries.
The death toll due to coronavirus in Europe has surpassed 30,000 with major Europian Union (EU) countries like Italy, Spain and France bearing the brunt of the casualties. Italy, with 12,428 casualties, is at the top of the chart as far as global COVID-19 deaths are concerned. Spain (8,464) is second followed by the USA (4,055) and France (3,523).
Justifying himself further, Benzema placed himself below Cristiano Ronaldo — his former Madrid teammate who is at Juventus — in the same way.
The French government has decided to extend the nationwide lockdown by two weeks until April 15 to combat the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced.
In a sudden coronavirus case surge, France has reported 1,847 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours. With this, the total count of cases rose to 14,459, the French Health Ministry said on Saturday.
Moradabad has reported its first COVID-19 case after a woman with travel history to France has been found coronavirus positive.
France said Monday that it would follow other European countries in confining residents mostly to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the European Union considered closing its external borders to foreign travelers to impede infections.
France has slapped US tech giant Apple with a record fine of €1.1 billion for indulging in anti-competitive practices. French authorities have reportedly said that Apple abused its economic dominance over independent retailers in France and that its actions barred the local retailers from competing on price.
Authorities around the world turned to increasingly drastic measures Sunday to try to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, with lockdowns, curfews and travel restrictions spreading.
Spain locked down its 46 million citizens and France ordered the closing of just about everything the rest of the world loves about it — the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the cafes and restaurants — as governments took increasingly desperate measures to put more space between people and contain the coronavirus.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the top-tier competition in France to be postponed indefinitely.
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