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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