New record day for vaccination in France. 879,597 injections against Covid-19 have been made in the last 24 hours, Olivier Véran announced on
his Twitter account this Friday evening. In detail, 381,304 people received a first dose.
Covid-19 contaminations continue to climb rapidly, going back above the 10,000 mark this Friday under the effect of the Delta variant, while hospitalizations were still down slightly, according to figures from Public Health France.
Nearly 6,971 people hospitalized
At least 10,908 people have tested positive for the virus in 24 hours, however with a catch-up effect from the July 14 public holiday, when fewer tests were carried out. But over the last 7 days, cases of contamination have almost doubled, amounting to nearly 40,562, against 23,039 the previous seven days.
The threshold of 10,000 new daily cases had not been crossed since the end of May. The highly contagious Delta variant is responsible for almost all of these new cases in France today.
Hospitals had 6,971 patients (7,054 as of Thursday), of whom 220 were admitted in the past 24 hours. This number of hospitalizations has thus returned for the first time since the beginning of October below the 7,000 mark, but the decline that began at the end of April has slowed down for several days. Critical care services, in charge of the most serious cases, recorded a slight decrease, with 899 patients against 914 the day before and 33 new admissions. The disease has killed 22 people in 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 111,480 since the start of the epidemic in March 2020.