At a news conference today, Jerome Salomon, head of the public health authority, said the figures included 7, 127 people who had died in French hospitals and partial data about those who have died in nursing homes.
The new figures show a rise of 27 percent today, up from percent on Monday and seven percent on Sunday.
Monday saw the country toll rise by , the biggest single-day leap before today.
Speaking yesterday, Health Minister Olivier Véran warned: “We have not reached the end of the end of the ascent of this epidemic.
“It is not over. Far from that. The path is long. The figures that I have announced show this.
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“Stay at home and continue this confinement effort.”
A nationwide lockdown remains in place across France , with most residents allowed outside only to buy essential supplies like food or medicine.
The country death toll is now behind only those of Italy, Spain, and the US globally, which have seen , 330, 24, , and 27, 417 deaths respectively.
The biggest single-day rise in each so far has been , , and 1, .
Across Europe, the virus has now killed more than 90, 13 people.
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The country has so far seen 19, (deaths from the pandemic)
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The figure comes after two days of declines in daily deaths, but topped the previous high of seen on Saturday.
The government chief scientific advisor Patrick Vallance said that the spread of the virus in the UK now appears to be slowing.
“It’s possible that we’re beginning to see the beginning of change in terms of the curve flattening a little bit,” he said.
“We won’t know that for sure for a week or so.”
But he also indicated that lockdown measures would need to remain in place until officials could be confident that number of new cases would not rebound once they are lifted.
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