A medical worker collect samples from a motorist to be tested for the coronavirus, at the Dyomedea-Neolab drive laboratory in Villefranche-sur-Saone near Lyon, southeastern France. (PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP)

PARIS: The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France increased by 544 to 21,340 on Wednesday (Apr 22), the fourth-highest casualty tally in the world, but trailing just a few hundred behind Spain, which has a death toll of 21,717.