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France COVID-19 deaths reach 7,500

April 5, 2020 6:41 am

French health officials have reported another 441 deaths in the past 24 hours.

These relates to a total of 5,532 fatalities in hospital.

The number of hospital deaths has remained stable in recent days.

Officially they have also been giving details of deaths in care homes for the elderly and that number has risen to 2,028.

Taken together, France has now seen 7,560 deaths.

Of the 28,143 people being treated in hospital, 6,838 are in intensive care.

Separately, Turkey has just reported that it has had 501 deaths so far and that the number of infections is close to 24,000.