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France recorded 330 new coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours, a rise in the daily toll as the country prepares to begin easing lockdown measures in less than a week. The latest deaths brought the total toll from the epidemic in the country to 25,531, according to top health official Jerome Salomon. VIDEOGRAPHIC
The coronavirus has caused four more deaths in France, bringing the total death toll to 25, Health Director Jérôme Salomon has announced. Among the dead, fifteen are men and ten are women, he said. SOUNDBITE
The coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 29,000 people in France with 81 new deaths in 24 hours in French hospitals. IMAGES
The Covid-19 epidemic has killed 20,796 people in France since it began in March, including 531 deaths recorded since Monday, but the pressure on hospitals continues to ease gradually, announces France's Director General of Health. SOUNDBITES
More people have now died from the novel coronavirus in France than the 14,000 people who died in the worst recent flu epidemic and the 19,000 killed by the 2003 heatwave, says Health Director-General Jérôme Salomon. SOUNDBITE
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