(CNN) — France has reported its lowest daily death toll from COVID-19 since March 22.
The virus claimed the lives of 135 people in the 24 hours leading up to Sunday’s release, according to French Health Ministry figures.
Since the beginning of March, 24,895 people have died of Covid-19 in France and the country has recorded 131,287 confirmed cases of the virus.
As of Sunday evening, 25,815 people were hospitalized for Covid-19, with 345 new admissions recorded over the past 24 hours.
The number of people in ICU decreased further, with 3,819 patients in intensive care. That number has continually fallen since April 9.
Emergency measures to be extended
On Saturday, the French government announced it would further extend its coronavirus state of emergency to July 24. The emergency was initially declared in late March and had been set to expire May 11.
The extension is part of a set of measures to be proposed to Parliament on Tuesday, Health Minister Olivier Veran said in a news conference.
Veran addressed reporters following a cabinet meeting on the coronavirus crisis. He said that lifting the emergency order earlier would waste the “considerable efforts made by the French people.”
“If we were to decrease overnight on May 11 the efforts we made, we can bet that all these efforts, made admirably by the French people, would have been in vain,” Veran said.
Other proposed measures include limiting foreign travel and introducing a quarantining process for some travelers entering France.
“The government’s objective is not to prevent the French people from traveling, the government’s objective is to prevent the virus from traveling,” Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said at the news conference.
Castaner added the proposed measures would not include restrictions on people traveling between districts within France.
