France has this evening confirmed its third death from COVID-19 coronavirus, SIA reports.
An 89-year-old woman died from the disease in a hospital in Compiègne, about 80 kilometres north-east of Paris. Compiègne in the region of Oise, which has seen a cluster of cases and is one of France's worst-hit areas.
She entered the hospital with respiratory problems and a COVID-19 link was only established after death, according to Jérôme Salomon, France's director-general of health.
It comes after the EU raised its risk assessment of the outbreak, warning there is now a moderate to high risk of sustained transmission in member states and the UK in the coming weeks.
The warning comes amid a surge in cases in Europe and across the world. At an EU Commission press conference, the commissioner for health Stella Kyriakidou announced The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) had raised the risk level, as the bloc tries to co-ordinate efforts to halt the spread of coronavirus.
The EU now has more than 2,100 confirmed cases across 18 member states, with 39 people losing their lives so far. These figures also include cases in the UK, Monaco, San Marino and Switzerland.
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