A funeral services van brings coffins in a building turned into a new 'large capacity' morgue in Wissous, south of the French capital on April 19, 2020, on the 34th day of a strict lockdown across France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. - The morgue will have the capacity to hold 450 coffins and family members will have no access to the building. Over 17,000 people have died from coronavirus in France since April 15. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)
There have now been at least 20,265 deaths from coronavirus in France, Jerome Salomon, the director of the country’s health agency, said on Monday.
He added that the death toll “has exceeded the symbolic and particularly painful threshold of 20,000 deaths.”
The coronavirus epidemic has killed more people in France than any other seasonal epidemic, Salomon said, and more than the 2003 heatwave that killed 19,000 people across the country.
Salomon also shared these figures:
There have so far been 114,657 confirmed cases, including those who recovered and those who died
At least 30,584 patients are hospitalized
At least 5,683 patients are in ICU
He added that the numbers confirm France is on a “very high plateau.”
