“Thus, according to the monitoring data, in France in recent days there has been a sharp increase in the number of deaths due to COVID-19,” the TASS agency quoted.
In total, since the beginning of the pandemic in France, 33,885 people have died in whom COVID-19 has been identified.
Almost 23 thousand of them died in hospitals.
In the past seven days, 8754 people were taken to hospitals, of which 1493 were in intensive care.
Since March, 930,745 cases of infection have been registered in France, they specified there.
Earlier, the wife of the President of France, Brigitte Macron, went into self-isolation for a week due to contact with a person who had a coronavirus.