Coronavirus: a flagrant excess mortality in the departments most affected by the epidemic

" With the flu epidemics and the end of winter, March is still an important month in terms of death, as are the months of January and February ," says Valérie Roux, head of the demography service at INSEE. However, that of March 2020 exceeds those of previous years, with the exception of 2018, which was already a high point. ” 75,602 deaths were thus recorded in France between March 1 and April 6, 2020. This is 8,200 more than on average at the same period in 2018 and 2019, even though 2018 was marked by a strong episode of influenza seasonal.

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This figure identifies deaths from all causes, whether related to Covid-19 or not. INSEE draws up these statistics from civil status documents sent by town halls. The latter do not contain the causes of death. Such availability of mortality by cause of death figures is also exceptional: their publication at departmental level is usually done

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