Coronavirus: former Sarkozy minister dies

In France, the coronavirus resulted in the death of 75-year-old ex-minister Patrick Devedjian, current chairman of the council of the Hauts-de-Seine department, just outside Paris.

Of Armenian origins, Devedjian was a member first of the UMP then of the Republicains, he was appointed minister for financial emergency in 2008 by the then president Nicolas Sarkozy, a position he held for almost two years. He died in the hospital in Nanterre, where he had been hospitalized on Wednesday.