Photos: COVID-19 sweeps across France

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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