PARIS (Reuters) – France’s coronavirus death toll rose by 46 on Friday, or 0.2%, to reach 29,111, which is the fifth-highest total in the world.
The rate of increase is the same as Thursday, while the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 disease continued its long-running decline, the health ministry said in a statement.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Chris Reese)
