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France’s health authorities announced an increase of 499 deaths of patients with the coronavirus in the country’s hospitals on Tuesday, the biggest jump in deaths since the start of the pandemic, Kim Willsher reports from Paris.
Here is the full update on coronavirus cases in France from Jérôme Salomon, head of the French health authority, as the French lockdown entered its third week.
The US has now more reported more deaths as a result of coronavirus infection than China, according to official statistics given by both countries that in all likelihood mask the true rates of infection in either.
The US now has 3,415 deaths from the virus, surpassing China’s figure of 3,309, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
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