France on Monday reported its highest daily number of deaths since the coronavirus epidemic began, saying 418 more people had died in hospital to bring the toll to 3,024, AFP reports.

There are now 20,946 people hospitalised in France with COVID-19, with 5,056 of them in intensive care, the government said in its daily update.

A nurse collects a sample from a person at a COVID-19 screening station outside the district hall of the 17th arrondissement in Paris, on March 30, 2020, on the fourteenth day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus in France. — AFP
A nurse collects a sample from a person at a COVID-19 screening station outside the district hall of the 17th arrondissement in Paris, on March 30, 2020, on the fourteenth day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus in France. — AFP

The French death toll includes only those who died in hospital and not those who died at home or in old people's homes.

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