5 doctors die in France

A total of five doctors have now died in France after contracting the coronavirus, the government confirmed on Monday, as concern grows over the welfare of medical practitioners on the frontline. With a controversy raging about the lack of protective masks for medical staff in France, France's Health Minister Oliver Véran said most of the medical staff who will contract the virus will be infected outside of their work. The minister said that although protection for frontline staff was "absolutely indispensable", there had been several cases of doctors and nurses falling ill when they were equipped with masks.