The number of people who have died from the COVID-19 illness in France has jumped.
The jump was by 61% over two days after data from nursing homes were included in the stats.
Confirmed cases also jumped by 44% to 82,165, according to reports at Reuters.
This makes France the fifth country to report more cases than China.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in hospitals rose by 5,233, or 9%, to 64,338 on Friday.
French hospitals also set a new daily death record of 588, an increase of 13% to 5,091.
Many country's stats do not include people who have died in nursing homes in their sick or death tally.
