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

PARIS—France has develop into 1 of the very first nations in the world to systematically report the influence of the new coronavirus in its nursing households, increasing the nation’s formal dying toll from the virus by a lot more than 40%.

France is pressing nursing households throughout the country—7,000 establishments housing 600,000 aged people—to report fatalities of confirmed or suspected coronavirus sufferers to wellness authorities. So considerably, the state has tallied three,237 fatalities in nursing households since March one, according to the wellness ministry. Only about…