Coronavirus: Almost 6,000 patients in intensive care (Illustration) – Eric Dessons / JDD / SIPA
France had almost 6,000 Covid-19 patients in intensive care services on Tuesday and nearly 32,000 people hospitalized,
according to figures from health authorities.
Currently the intensive care units, which treat the most serious forms of the disease, welcome 5,952 patients (against 5,916 on Monday). A figure never reached since the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic in April 2020, which had exceeded 7,000 patients in critical care.
324 new deaths in 24 hours
The number of sheave admissions over twenty-four hours, at 555 (against 492 on Monday), is also higher than the highest of the second wave, which had a peak of 540 admissions, according to figures from Public Health France . At present, the capacity of resuscitation services in French hospitals has been increased to 8,000 beds, all pathologies combined. They are 90% occupied.
The number of people hospitalized, with 31,926 patients, remains however below the highest of the second wave (to more than 33,000 in November). The number of seven-day hospitalizations, which provides a more reliable trend than the daily figures, is on the rise to 14,715 admissions.
There were 39,113 new cases in twenty-four hours. The coronavirus has caused 99,508 deaths in just over a year, with 324 people having died from the coronavirus since Monday.