France has recorded the highest number of deaths since the outbreak of coronavirus.
This report was reviewed on Monday, showing that about 418 people had died in hospital bringing the toll to 3,024.
AFP reports review that there are 20,946 people hospitalised in France with COVID-19, with 5,056 of them in intensive care, the government said in its daily update.
The French death toll includes only those who died in hospital and not those who died at home or in old people’s homes.
France has been in lockdown since March 17 in a bid to slow the spread of the epidemic and officials have repeatedly warned it will take time for the measures to bear fruit.
However, Top French health official Jerome Salomon said, “ are in no way going down , we are in the midst of the epidemic ”
He noted that the growth in infections in neighbouring Italy had seen a “relative slowing ” in the last days and expressed hope that the figures in France could show signs of improvement at the end of this week.
“ The aim of the confinement is to massively reduce the contacts between people,” he said.
“ Our aim every day should be to have as few contacts as possible. If we reduce contacts, the virus can no longer pass from one person to another and the number of people infected should fall .”
