France reports huge spike in COVID-19 deaths, raising total to 264

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French health authorities reported 89 new deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total to 264 or an increase of almost 51per cent, a ...

A man wearing a protective face mask walks past a Louis Vuitton shop on the Croisette in Cannes where the Cannes Film Festival and the Cannes Lions take place, as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease , in France, March 18, 2020.

During a press conference, health agency director Jerome Salomon added the number of cases had risen to 9,134, up from 7,730 on Tuesday, which is a rise of 18 per cent in 24 hours.

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