France revises down coronavirus death toll
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[PARIS] France on Tuesday adjusted downwards its death toll for the coronavirus as a result of revisions to how fatalities are registered in nursing homes.
The health ministry put the latest toll at 28,022, compared with a figure of 28,239 published the day earlier.
It said this was due to a revision in the data for nursing homes, where 342 fewer people are now recorded to have died from Covid-19.
Over the last 24 hours, 125 more people were registered to have died of the coronavirus in hospital, it added.
With France now over a week into the easing of its hard lockdown, the numbers of people in intensive care continued to fall by 104 to a total of 1,894.
At the peak of the crisis, this figure reached over 7,000.
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