Coronavirus: Death of teenager, who had 'just a cough', shakes France Published Mar 27, 2020, 10:16 pm SGT Facebook Twitter PARIS (AFP) - A week ago, 16-year-old Julie came down with a slight cough. On Wednesday (March 25), she became France's youngest Covid-19 fatality, shaking a nation hit by a spiralling health crisis . "We'll never know why," the girl's mother, Sabine, said late on Thursday after France's national health director gave the latest grim toll from the outbreak , now at nearly 1,700 deaths. For many people, the high school student's death brought home what experts have warned - the new virus is not a threat only to the elderly or people with underlying medical problems. "She had just a cough" that anyone might get as winter winds down, Julie's mother said. Initially, they treated it with cough syrup and steam inhalation treatments. By last Saturday, howev...
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