Coronavirus: Fifth day of recession in intensive care units (Illustration) – UGO AMEZ / SIPA
A drop for the fifth day in a row: the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units continued to decline on Saturday, with less than 5,600 patients registered, according to figures from
Public health France.
Critical care services (which bring together resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) had 5,581 patients on Saturday, including 310 admitted in the last twenty-four hours, against 5,675 the day before. Seven days ago, the emergency services counted 5,958 Covid-19 patients.
Fewer hospitalizations for Covid-19 cases
Since mid-April, the number of patients hospitalized in these services has fluctuated around 6,000 patients. A figure below the peak of the first wave in April 2020 (around 7,000) but higher than that of the second wave in the fall (4,900). The total of Covid patients in the hospital also continued to decline, to 28,603 against 28,930 the day before, with 1,246 new hospitalizations in the last twenty-four hours against 1,433 the previous day.
In the past twenty-four hours, 195 Covid-19 patients have died in hospital against 271 the day before, bringing the total number of deaths to more than 104,700 since the start of the epidemic in spring 2020.
Over 22 million vaccines
On the vaccination front, since the start of the campaign, 15,772,708 people have received at least one injection of an anti-Covid vaccine in France (i.e. 23.5% of the total population and 30% of the adult population ) and 6,499,811 people received two injections (i.e. 9.7% of the total population and 12.4% of the adult population).