A LR deputy from Haut-Rhin is currently hospitalized showing signs of coronavirus contamination, parliamentary sources told AFP on Thursday evening, confirming information from the JDD. Its contamination is not proven at this stage according to these sources. The Alsatian deputy was present at questions to the government on Tuesday, February 25, but absent this week from the National Assembly. Another source is concerned about her condition. The National Assembly did not react at this stage.
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The Mulhouse area is one of the centers of coronavirus in France. Several dozen cases of infection were disseminated in the country from an evangelical gathering organized in Mulhouse in February and bringing together around 2,000 people. In total, " in France, today at 4 p.m., 423 confirmed cases are 138 cases more than yesterday, " announced Health Director General Jérôme Salomon during his daily press briefing on Thursday. " We now have seven people dead, 6 men and a woman, " he added.
Among the sick, 23 are in serious condition and hospitalized in intensive care, eight more than the day before, said Jérôme Salomon. This assessment shows the largest increase in a day since the start of the crisis.
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