Coronavirus: France Records First Death, Says Victim Is A Teacher
Medical staff from the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute are at work in the laboratory to analyse samples on the possible presence of the COVID-19 on 26 February 26, 2020 in Marseille. GERARD JULIEN / AFPA 60-year-old teacher has become the first French casualty of the coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Wednesday.
Le Parisien newspaper quoted the mayor of the teacher’s hometown of Vaumoise as saying he had “begun to feel ill at the start of the holidays and had been quickly hospitalised.”France has reported four other new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours — two in people returning from hard-hit Italy — bringing the total number of infections to 17.
One of the four people still being treated in hospital, a 55-year-old man, is in a critical condition in the northern city of Amiens. The French government has asked citizens returning from Lombardy and the neighbouring Veneto region to avoid “all non-essential outings” and keep their children home from school.
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