Coronavirus in France: 1,995 deaths, youngest victim aged 16

France's confirmed coronavirus cases as of Saturday, March 23 (morning) stand at 32,964, and deaths, 1995. French President Emmanuel Macron imposed a lockdown on March 17, due to last all month long to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The lockdown has now been extended to April 15 as the country recorded its highest daily death toll on Friday, announced France's Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. After a cabinet meeting held by videoconference, the PM made a statement: "We find ourselves in a crisis that will last, in a health situation that will not improve any time soon.

Frédéric Valletoux, president of the French Hospitals Federation told French broadcaster BFM TV: "We will be at the limit of our capacities in 24 or 48 hours. We will need to show real solidarity between regions, hospitals and increase the numbers of patient transfers.

"If we let hospitals cope by themselves, and let every territory that has been swept by the epidemic cope alone, then we’re heading towards a catastrophe.”

France's youngest patient to die of the virus is a 16-year-old girl, Julie, who had no underlying health problems. She passed away at a Paris children's hospital on Thursday. "It's unbearable," lamented Sabine, Julie's mother. "It was just a cough." From a cough, Julie's condition rapidly deteriorated to respiratory insufficiency and intubation.

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