France on Sunday reported 395 deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, as the number of new patients being hospitalised continued to slowly decline, reports Radio France Internationale.
The new deaths – 227 in hospitals and 168 in nursing homes – bring France’s overall toll to 19,718, public health chief Jérôme Salomon told a joint press conference with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, health minister Olivier Véran and infectious diseases specialist Professor Florence Ader.
Salomon said the total number of people in intensive care units fell for the 11th day in a row to 5,744 – but stressed that number remained “very high". He added: “Today there are 30,610 hospital patients, or 890 new patients admitted in the past 24 hours.”
France has now recorded 12,069 deaths in hospitals and 7,649 in medico-social establishments and nursing homes since the beginning of the epidemic. French press agency AFP reported that globally 160,000 have died from Covid-19.