Coronavirus pandemic plunges French economy into worst slump since WWII

France is officially in the worst recession since the Second World War, according to data from the national statistics agency released on Thursday.

GDP shrank 5.8% in the first quarter of 2020, as Ross Cullen reports from Paris.

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