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First French hospital doctor dies of coronavirus

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Medical staff are bent over a patient being evacuated on a trolley to a medical helicopter at The Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France on March 22, as patients are evacuated to another hospital facility, on the sixth day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) — AFP or licensors
Medical staff are bent over a patient being evacuated on a trolley to a medical helicopter at The Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France on March 22, as patients are evacuated to another hospital facility, on the sixth day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) — AFP or licensors
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France on Sunday reported its first death of a hospital doctor from coronavirus, AFP reports.

Health Minister Olivier Veran said that as far as he knew the man — who died on Saturday — was the “first hospital doctor to be hit”.

The accident and emergency practitioner worked at a hospital in Compiegne, north of Paris, AFP was able to confirm.

Medical staff are bent over a patient being evacuated on a trolley to a medical helicopter at The Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France on March 22, as patients are evacuated to another hospital facility, on the sixth day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19. — AFP
Medical staff are bent over a patient being evacuated on a trolley to a medical helicopter at The Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France on March 22, as patients are evacuated to another hospital facility, on the sixth day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19. — AFP

The virus has so far killed 562 people in France with a further 6,172 in hospital, of whom a quarter are in serious condition in intensive care.

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