PARIS, April 17 — France's registered death toll from coronavirus infections rose towards 18,000 yesterday, but some data suggested the spread of the disease has been contained after a one-month old national lockdown, officials said. During a press conference Jerome Salomon, head of the public...
A municipal policeman wearing a protective face mask walks past the closed Apple store on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris under lockdown, France April 16, 2020. — Reuters pic
“Our collective efforts demonstrate their effectiveness. The spread of the virus is stabilizing at a high level and that is good news,” Salomon said. “The decline in intensive care needs is consolidating, but 6,248 patients in ICU units is a much higher figure than the initial maximum capacity in these units in France,” Salomon said.
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