France on Wednesday reported a drop in coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours compared with previous days, as its overall toll passed the 27,000 mark, reports Channel News Asia.
The new deaths brought the total toll in hospitals and nursing homes from the pandemic in France to 27,074, the health ministry said.
But the ministry also acknowledged a counting error has revised down the toll in nursing homes by 15 people from the day earlier, adding it did not yet have a toll from nursing homes for Wednesday.
It said that over the last 24 hours, 98 people had died in hospital.
According to the health ministry's official toll, this means 83 people were registered to have died over the last 24 hours, compared with 348 the previous day.
Recent positive trends continued, with 114 fewer people in intensive care for a total of 2,428, a figure that exceeded 7,000 at the peak of the crisis.
There were still 21,071 coronavirus patients in hospital, a net drop of 524 from a day earlier.