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Coronavirus death toll in France mounts to 16 with 949 confirmed cases
Baku, March 8, AZERTAC
French health officials on Saturday reported five more deaths from coronavirus, taking the total death toll to 16 with 949 confirmed cases nationwide. The cases included three in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, according to FRANCE 24.
Jerome Salomon, the head of France’s public health service, said 45 people have been hospitalised in intensive care, six more than when the last summary was issued Friday.
Earlier Saturday, the National Assembly announced a third coronavirus case in France’s lower house of parliament.
The National Assembly did not name the legislator who recently caught the disease, but said the third case was a female parliamentarian.
The jump in infections in France mirrored the global trend with the more than 100,000 cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).