FILE PHOTO: A nurse takes a break next to parking lot for ambulance at the Sud Francilien hospital in Corbeil-Essonne near Paris as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in France April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesPARIS: French mortality rates between May 1 and 18 were 6 per cent lower than for the same period last year and 1 per cent below the rate seen over that period in 2018, despite the coronavirus epidemic, statistics agency INSEE said on Friday .
During the peak of the epidemic between Mar 1 and Apr 30, French mortality rates were 26 per cent higher than the year-earlier period and 16 per cent higher than the corresponding period in 2018, provisional data showed."Since May 1 ... we no longer excess mortality compared to the two previous year," the agency said in a statement.
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