A hospital doctor died after being infected with the new coronavirus, said Sunday March 22 the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, adding that it was to his " knowledge " the first death of this type in France.
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" I was informed yesterday (Saturday) evening of the death of a hospital doctor, it is to my knowledge (...) the first situation that struck a hospital doctor ", said Olivier Véran to the Grand Jury RTL- Le Figaro-LCI. He refused to give " more specific information ", in the name of the family's will and medical confidentiality.
According to France 3 Hauts-de-France, the victim is an emergency doctor from Compiègne, in Oise, one of the first departments to have been badly affected in France, and died after his transfer to Lille. Information confirmed to AFP from a source close to the file.
Olivier Véran, who " associated himself with the pain of the family ", noted the " very heavy price paid by the large family of doctors today ".
