Covid-19: the decline continues in the hospital (Illustration) – Marin Driguez / SIPA
The decline continues. The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care services continued to decline on Friday to drop below 4,400. The number of hospitalizations as a whole also continues to decline, according to figures from
Public health France.
The health agency indicates that the critical care services (which bring together resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) now have 4,352 coronavirus patients, including 152 new admissions in twenty-four hours, against 4,442 Thursday. This figure has been declining almost continuously since the high point, at 6,001, reached on April 26 (higher than the peak of the second wave of autumn at 4,900 but below that of the first wave in April 2020, around 7.000).
Twenty million French people will have received a dose of vaccine on Saturday
The total number of hospitalizations for Covid-19 also continues to decline, with 23,406 patients identified on Friday, including 733 new hospitalizations in twenty-four hours, against 23,656 the day before.
The disease has killed 173 people in hospital in the last twenty-four hours, against 131 the day before. Figures for new contaminations and vaccine injections were not yet available at the end of the afternoon.
16.6% of the adult population fully vaccinated
7,025 new contaminations were also listed, a low level corresponding to the day of Thursday (public holiday), against 19,461 the day before and 19,124 last Friday. The positivity rate (number of positive tests out of the total tests carried out) is again down to 4.7% after several days of sharp decline, since it still stood at 10% at the end of April.
On the vaccination front, 19,706,931 people received at least one injection and 8,705,141 people received two injections (i.e. 13% of the total population and 16.6% of the major population), according to figures released on Friday. evening.
“20 million French” having received a dose by Saturday
This improvement in indicators is accompanied by an acceleration of the vaccination campaign, the milestone of “20 million French” having “received at least one vaccine injection” to be reached on Saturday, the Minister of Health announced on Twitter, Olivier Véran. This figure corresponds to the objective set by the government, which wants to reach 30 million first-time injections by mid-June.
According to Olivier Véran, “still nearly 600,000 vaccinations” were carried out on Friday. “The exceptional mobilization continues across the country,” he tweeted. ” We continue ! From next week, doctors and pharmacists will be able to order Moderna vaccines to protect their patients in town, ”he recalled.