PARIS, April 5 (Xinhua) -- France has registered a total of 8,078 deaths caused by the COVID-19 since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday.
The disease claimed 357 lives in hospital in last 24 hours, taking the toll in hospital to 5,889. In addition, the counting by elderly nursing homes across the country found that there were 2,189 deaths since March 1, the ministry said in a press release.