FILE PHOTO: French Defence Minister Florence Parly talks to media after a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus February 18, 2020. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - France's armed forces minister blamed an outbreak of the coronavirus that infected more than 1,000 sailors through its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier fleet on mistakes made during efforts to counter the disease's spread.
All but one of the sailors, about two dozen of whom were hospitalised, had now fully recovered, Florence Parly told parliament's defence committee on Monday.
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