The decline in patients and resuscitations continues – ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
The pressure on hospital services continues to drop, with just over 2,000 Covid-19 patients in intensive care units on Monday, according to figures from Public Health France. France now has 12,374 people hospitalized due to Covid-19, a figure at the lowest since mid-October.
The decline in the number of patients treated in critical care, for the most serious forms, also continues, with 2,068 patients, a lowest since mid-October also, including 71 new admissions.
63 deaths in 24 hours
The number of contaminations rose to 689 confirmed cases in twenty-four hours against 2,855 the day before. This figure is still lower on Monday, after the weekend, but it was still 1,164 last Monday. The positivity rate over the past seven days, the ratio of the number of people tested positive to the total number of people tested, is down to 1.5%.
The disease killed 63 hospital patients in twenty-four hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 110,483 since the start of the epidemic more than a year ago.
Vaccination is still progressing
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 30,472,434 people have received at least one injection and 14,364,587 people have received two injections. This represents respectively 58% and 27.4% of the adult population.
16,126,305 people have a complete vaccination schedule (two doses, or one dose if a single-dose vaccine or if a vaccine for a person who has had Covid-19), specifies the Ministry of Health.