His name was André Charon and was 73 years old. This general practitioner of Haut-Rhin died "of the Covid-19 epidemic", announced his family on Sunday. This is the third death of a practitioner in this department particularly affected by the coronavirus and the seventh in France.
The death of André Charon, who worked in Saint-Louis, in the south of the Haut-Rhin, occurred Friday, his family said in an announcement published in the regional daily L'Alsace. Before him, a general practitioner from Fessenheim and a gynecologist who worked in a clinic in Mulhouse had died due to the Covid-19 in the same department.
The Haut-Rhin particularly affected
The Haut-Rhin, and in particular Mulhouse, have been one of the most active centers of the epidemic in France since a vast evangelical gathering at the end of February in which around 2000 people participated.
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Several of them were unknowingly carriers of the coronavirus which they then involuntarily spread around and throughout France when they returned home.
In France, the coronavirus-related deaths of seven doctors have been made public, mainly in the east of the country.