France has registered 544 additional deaths linked to the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, which brings the total toll to 21,340 deaths since the start of the pandemic, announced Wednesday April 22, the director general of health, Jérôme Salomon.

In detail, since March 1, 13,236 people have died in hospitals and 8,104 others have died in social and medical-social establishments, including nursing homes.

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