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Paris (People's Daily) -- French government officials announced the country has 16,018 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday after 112 people died in a single day from the virus.

Nationwide, the death toll stands at 674 with 1,746 in critical condition, said Jerome Salomon, the director of France's public health agency, at a daily press conference.

Earlier, French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced the country’s first fatality involving a doctor. 

French media reported the victim was a 68-year-old retired A&E doctor who worked on the emergency ward in Compiègne, in the Oise department, where the country’s first COVID-19 cluster was reported in early March. 

A military field hospital in Mulhouse was set up over the weekend and will undergo trial operations on Monday before it can start treating COVID-19 patients. 

If successful, a green light will be given by the site's medical chief, General Jacques Escarment, who said the facility would allow “the reception of the first patients, perhaps Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning. or midweek.”