The coronavirus has claimed two new victims in France. According to a latest report from the Ministry of Health on Thursday, two people died from Covid-19, bringing the total number to six, and 92 new cases of positive patients were identified compared to Wednesday.
So far, 377 positive cases have been confirmed since the end of January. The increase observed between Wednesday and Thursday is the largest in a day since the start of the crisis. The two new dead are "a 73 year old from the Oise and a 64 year old from the Aisne," the ministry said in a statement, without further details.
Towards an inevitable stage 3?
The previous dead were, in order, an 81-year-old Chinese tourist (February 14), a 60-year-old teacher from a college in the Oise (on the night of February 25 to 26), a 89-year-old woman years whose death was announced Monday (she had been tested after his death at the hospital in Compiègne) and a 92-year-old man who was part of the Morbihan case group (Tuesday).
"Slowing this spread [of the virus] is to attenuate the impact on the population during the transition to stage 3, the peak of the epidemic will be all the more limited," continues the ministry, which thus seems to take for granted a future transition to the next stage of disease control. France is currently in stage 2, which was declared on Saturday, and stage 3 corresponds to that of the epidemic itself.
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