(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The death toll in France increased to 6,507 and the deaths of nursing homes were serious
China News Agency, Paris, April 3 (Reporter Li Yang) The new French pneumonia epidemic continues to deteriorate. According to official statistics released on the evening of the 3rd local time, the cumulative number of deaths from French new coronary pneumonia has increased to 6,507. 1416 people have died of new coronary pneumonia in French nursing homes.
Salomon, the head of the French Health Agency, included the death toll of new coronary pneumonia in nursing homes for the first time in the total death statistics. He said that the cumulative deaths of French new coronary pneumonia has reached 6507, including 5091 deaths in hospitals and 1416 deaths in nursing homes.
The French nursing home has a severe epidemic. Salomon said 66% of nursing homes in the whole country have reported confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, and the specific data is still being aggregated.
Salomon said that the number of inpatients in France has risen to 27,432, including 6,662 severe patients. At present, 35% of the critically ill patients are younger than 60 years old, and 93 people are under 30 years old.
Salomon also revealed that since the outbreak, France has transported a total of 506 severely ill patients to other places for treatment. On the 3rd, a total of 115 severely ill patients were transported in France, of which more than 100 were transported from the Greater Paris area to Normandy and other places for treatment.
The epidemic situation of New Coronary Pneumonia in the Greater Paris area, including the capital Paris, is still very serious. The total number of deaths in this area has reached 1835 cases, and there are 2375 serious patients. The number of confirmed cases in this area has reached 19856.
In France, on the 3rd, 5,233 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were diagnosed, and a total of 64,338 cases were confirmed. According to the plan previously announced by the French Ministry of Health, the number of virus tests should now be increased to 30,000 per day, but it is still far lower than the number of tests in Italy, Germany and other countries.
French President Macron inspected the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the same day accompanied by Foreign Minister Ledrion, and held video calls with French embassies and consulates in France and French embassies in Morocco and other foreign agencies. Macron affirmed the work of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Finish)