6:08 on April 6, part of a French wholesale market with more than 8,000 dead in a temporary morgue
In Europe, the number of people who died from the new coronavirus after Italy and Spain is the highest in France, the number of deaths exceeded 8,000, making some of the world's largest wholesale markets on the outskirts of the capital Paris a temporary morgue Is required.
The French government said on Tuesday that 70,478 people were infected with the new coronavirus and that deaths increased by 518 to 8078, surpassing 8,000.
In France, the number of deaths in hospitals as well as deaths in facilities for the elderly has been added to the statistics, and the number of deaths has soared, doubling in the past four days. In Europe, 15,887 people in Italy and Spain It is the second largest after 12,418 people.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police Department has begun accepting some facilities on the outskirts of the Rungis market, a wholesale market for fresh food, as temporary morgues.
The Rungis market is the world's largest wholesale market, with a site area of 234 hectares, equivalent to approximately 50 Tokyo Domes.
The morgue will be used in a building away from food handling facilities, and will accept up to 1,000 bodies, and will be a place where families can say goodbye.
With the death toll rising rapidly in Europe, countries have been forced to take extraordinary measures, including making the skating rink a temporary morgue in Spain.