PARIS (Reuters) – France’s overall mortality rate in 2020, inflated by the COVID-19 pandemic, was nine percent higher than in the previous two years, provisional data released by statistics institute INSEE showed on Friday.
INSEE said that on Jan. 15, a total of 667,400 deaths from all causes had been registered for 2020 in France, which was 53,900 more than in 2019.
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Gareth Jones)
