Photos: COVID-19 sweeps across France

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France recorded its worst daily coronavirus death toll on Wednesday, taking the official tally to 4,032, while the number of cases rose 17%. Of those more than 6,000 people need life-support, including a third in and around Paris. | Above: Medical staff embark a patient infected with the COVID-19 virus in a train at the Gare d'Austerlitz train station, in Paris. Image Credit: AP

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Intensive care capacity is reaching the breaking point in eastern regions and Paris, with the military helping to evacuate patients to other parts of the country. | Above: Evacuated patients aboard a military plane from Mulhouse, eastern France to Bordeaux, southwestern France. Image Credit: AP

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Medical staffs evacuate a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus, at Orly airport, south of Paris. The operation aims at relieving hospitals in the Paris region, hardly hit by the coronavirus Image Credit: AP

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Members of the civil protection ambulance service wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) load a patient showing suspected signs of coronavirus into an ambulance in Paris Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Members of the Civil Protection service, Vincent Jactel, left, and Aurore Lejeune, right, escort a 27-year-old pregnant woman suspected of being infected with the Covid-19 virus in Paris Image Credit: AP

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Employees of the Lantz funeral company and wearing a facemasks for protective measures, carry the coffin of a victim of the COVID-19, in Mulhouse, eastern France Image Credit: AFP

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A patient suffering from COVID-19 is treated at the intensive care unit at Ambroise Pare clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris Image Credit: REUTERS

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A medical staff member wearing a protective facemask and a suit, collects samples of a patient arriving at a medical centre, in Paris, testing patient potentially contaminated by the COVID-19 Image Credit: AFP

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A medical staff worker pulls out a patient from an ambulance to be admitted in an hospital, in Rennes, western France Image Credit: AP

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Medical staffs evacuate a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus, at Orly airport, south of Paris Image Credit: AP

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A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 during a nationwide confinement to counter the virus, in Aubagne, southern France Image Credit: AP

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A doctor, right, speaks with a member of the civil protection ambulance service, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), as a patient's respiratory system is checked for coronavirus symptoms, in a medical practice in Paris Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Medical staff install patients infected with the COVID-19 virus in a train at the Gare d'Austerlitz train station in Paris Image Credit: AP

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Medical personnel listen to people arriving at the reception of the Emergency Room, set up in a tent, in a courtyard of the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil in the suburbs of Paris Image Credit: AFP

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A medical personnel loads a patient lying on a stretcher into an ambulance at the reception of the Emergency Room, set up in a tent, in a courtyard of the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil in the suburbs of Paris Image Credit: AFP

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French President Emmanuel Macron, right, wears a protective suit and a face mask as he visits the Kolmi-Hopen protective face masks factory in Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou near Angers, central France Image Credit: AP

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The evacuation of a patient infected with the Covid-19 disease, in Metz, eastern France to Essen, Germany. Image Credit: AP

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A patient, infected with COVID-19, is carried on a stretcher into a Caiman helicopter from the French army during transfer operations from Strasbourg to Germany and Switzerland Image Credit: REUTERS

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Medical staffs evacuate a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus from an ambulance before transporting him into a French military helicopter heading to Switzerland to ease the situation in eastern France, in Strasbourg, eastern France Image Credit: AP

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Medical staff disembark from ambulances patients infected with the COVID-19 at the Gare d'Austerlitz train station, in Paris Image Credit: via REUTERS

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An employee prepares a coffin for a COVID-19 victim at a funeral logistic center in Ris-Orangis, near Paris Image Credit: REUTERS

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Medical personnel tend to a patient at the reception of the Emergency Room, set up in a tent, in a courtyard of the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil in the suburbs of Paris Image Credit: AFP

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A member of the medical staff, wearing protective suit and face mask, talks to a patient at an emergency COVID-19 center inside a gymnasium in Champigny-sur-Marne near Paris Image Credit: REUTERS

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Health workers carry out a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance at the Pontchaillou hospital of Rennes during a transfer operation of people infected with coronavirus, from Paris Region Hospital to Britanny Image Credit: REUTERS

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