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Photos: COVID-19 sweeps across France

France becomes the fourth country to pass the 4,000 coronavirus deaths threshold

Published: April 02, 2020 15:00 Compiled by Balaram Menon, Digital Content Editor

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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_23422.jpg-c32ef-1585824978554 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_39385.jpg-2a3b4-1585825014544 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_44218.jpg-a5e97-1585824984786 — 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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Copy of 360868023_0-8-1585825027923 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France's_Volunteers_Photo_Gallery_69010.jpg-a2a39~1-1585825008267 — 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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Copy of 766451-01-08-1585825018473 — 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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Copy of 2020-04-01T130440Z_39335128_RC2PVF9V0MGS_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-FRANCE-HOSPITAL [1]-1585825046847 — 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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Copy of 765937-01-08-1585825021676 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_40429.jpg-dceaf-1585824988983 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_77129.jpg-2a19d-1585824981565 — Medical staffs evacuate a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus, at Orly airport, south of Paris Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_80692.jpg-02bcc-1585824996107 — 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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Copy of 360867952_0-10-1585825030582 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_33985.jpg-68a91~1-1585824992581 — 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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Copy of 764575-01-08-1585825033632 — 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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Copy of 764560-01-08-1585825036527 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_15435.jpg-bbaf7-1585824999763 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_16466.jpg-cbe18-1585825011771 — 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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Copy of 2020-03-30T213809Z_1341447797_RC2BUF9TATHX_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-FRANCE-AIRBRIDGES-1585824967649 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_France_70310.jpg-d0215-1585825004608 — 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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Copy of 2020-04-01T144359Z_1292698565_RC2QVF9OTI9Z_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-FRANCE-1585825025168 — 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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Copy of 2020-03-31T173013Z_118189535_RC25VF9LMYJ2_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-FRANCE-FUNERAL-1585824974739 — 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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Copy of 764519-01-08-1585825042803 — 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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Copy of 2020-03-31T135620Z_111894460_RC21VF9QRD2R_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-FRANCE-COVID-CENTER-1585824970855 — 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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Copy of 2020-04-01T130810Z_1243061098_RC2PVF9JIL1U_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-FRANCE-TRAIN-1585825039477 — 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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