In France, Scrutiny of Nursing Homes Brings Soaring Coronavirus Death Toll

PARIS—France has turn into one particular of the 1st nations in the earth to systematically report the effects of the new coronavirus in its nursing households, elevating the nation’s official demise toll from the virus by far more than forty{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad}.

France is pressing nursing households across the country—7,000 institutions housing 600,000 elderly people—to report deaths of verified or suspected coronavirus individuals to well being authorities. So much, the place has tallied 3,237 deaths in nursing households due to the fact March one, in accordance to the well being ministry. Only about…