PARIS: France's registered death toll from coronavirus infections rose towards 18,000 on Thursday (Apr 14), but some data suggested the spread of the virus has been contained after a one-month old national lockdown, officials said.
During a press conference Jerome Salomon, head of the public health authority, said the number of people in hospital had declined for a second day running, and that the total number in intensive care units had fallen for the eighth day in a row.