PARIS (REUTERS) - France said its total death toll from Covid-19 infections rose above 15,000 on Tuesday (April 14), becoming the fourth country to exceed that threshold after Italy, Spain and the United States, while the rate of increase in cases and fatalities is re-accelerating.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - France said its total death toll from Covid-19 infections rose above 15,000 on Tuesday , becoming the fourth country to exceed that threshold after Italy, Spain and the United States, while the rate of increase in cases and fatalities is re-accelerating.
On Monday, President Emmanuel Macron announced a second extension of this lockdown until May 11, saying that progress had been made but also that the country had not been sufficiently prepared early on to surmount the challenges posed by the outbreak of the new coronavirus. He added that the total number of confirmed infections had climbed by 5.3 per cent to 103,573, compared to a rate of increase of 2.8 per cent on Monday and of 1.7 per cent on Sunday.
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