France has registered an additional 516 deaths from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 21,856 since the start of the pandemic, director general of health Jérôme said in a statement on Thursday 23 Solomon.

In detail, since March 1, 13,547 people have died in hospitals and 8,309 others have died in social and medical-social establishments, including nursing homes.

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