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France Covid-19 toll decreases further Sunday

Official French figures released Sunday evening said 13 people had died in hospitals from the Covid-19 virus over the previous 24 hours, down from 232 on Saturday, while recorded new cases of infections by the virus, and hospitalisations and intensive care unit patients treated for the disease all continued to fall, although the numbers of fatalities are expected to rise when the toll in care homes are due to be announced on Tuesday.

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France saw a dramatic drop in fatalities from coronavirus on Sunday, with 13 more deaths reported over the past day, according to the health ministry, reports the Anadolu Agency.

This was a fall of 22 deaths from Saturday.

The nationwide death toll from the virus has reached 29,155.

Meanwhile, new infections have also slowed down significantly with 343 cases over the past day, taking the overall tally to 153,977.

The number of hospitalizations were down on Sunday at 12,461, a drop of 15 patients from the day before. Those in intensive care fell to 1,053, down by six patients from the past day.

With fatalities from the virus subsiding, French health officials shut the temporary morgue set up in a vacant building in the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. The facility was set up in April at the height of the pandemic when deaths were mounting.

Read more of this report from the Anadolu Agency.