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570 elderly people have died in nursing homes in the French Grand-Est region since the coronavirus epidemic began, the regional health authority said tonight.
France became the fourth country in the world to exceed the threshold of 4,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, but deaths outside hospitals are not counted there.
Deaths in nursing homes have increased, with dozens of deaths reported across the country, but authorities have been slow to directly link these deaths to the coronavirus given the age and health of many of the deceased.
"As of March 31, there are 411 nursing homes affected by Covid-19 out of the 620 in the region," the Grand-Est Public Health Authority has released in a statement, "570 people have died in total."
The French regions have been compiling figures on the situation in nursing homes and the national health agency plans to deliver the unified figures on Thursday.
Almost 1 million elderly people live in residences in France. The representatives of the senior centers already warned the Minister of Health in March that more than 100,000 elderly people could die if the situation in the residences is not controlled.
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