PARIS
The death toll in France from the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak rose to 61, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
The number of confirmed cases of the virus has also risen to 2,876 from 2,281, the ministry said in a statement.
President Emmanuel Macron announced new measures against the coronavirus outbreak in a televised address to the nation.
Macron said nurseries, schools, colleges, high schools and universities will be closed as of March 16 for an undetermined amount of time.
Describing the coronavirus outbreak as the “biggest health crisis that France has known in a century,” he also warned people