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French Virus Deaths Jump With More Nursing Home Patients Counted

A doctor puts on gloves at a drive-thru coronavirus test center in Paris on April 7.Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg

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By Rudy Ruitenberg

April 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM UTC

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France reported 1,341 new deaths from the coronavirus after including a backlog of data from nursing homes, while the number of intensive-care patients declined for the first time since the outbreak began.