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| - A third person has died in France of the new coronavirus, sources in northern France said Monday, confirming the death of an elderly woman in a town that already lost a man to the disease. The woman, in her eighties, lived in Crepy-en-Valois, northeast of Paris, where the 60-year-old teacher who died last week had been working. Tests began Monday on a total of 265 people who were in contact with him, including 185 students. The first fatality reported in France was an 80-year-old Chinese tourist who died in hospital in Paris in mid-February. From a handful a week ago, the number of cases of infection has risen to at least 130. Two clusters of infection have emerged -- one in the northern Oise region, where Crepy-en-Valois is located, and another in the Haute-Savoie region near the Swiss border. The government has banned gatherings of 5,000 people or more and closed dozens of schools and cancelled religious services in some of the hardest-hit zones. In Paris, the Louvre museum was closed for a second day running on Monday after staff again refused to work due to fears of contamination. frd-rl/cb/js/jj
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