France passes the barrier of 85,000 deaths from the coronavirus this Tuesday according to the latest report published by the government.

The situation in hospitals remains very tense with an increase in patients in intensive care and despite a slight decrease in hospitalizations over the last 24 hours.

France has 85,044 deaths from the coronavirus according to the latest figures released by the government.

This represents 431 more deaths in 24 hours.

Hospital pressure remains very high, with a slight increase in resuscitations noted on Tuesday.

A slight decrease in hospitalizations is nevertheless to be noted.

The one-week trend seems to indicate a slow deterioration of the situation.

Contaminations on the rise as well as new resuscitations while the total number of people hospitalized remains stable, increasing very slightly.

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