A patient in intensive care at Bordeaux University Hospital, April 2, 2021 (Illustration) – UGO AMEZ / SIPA
Such a level of intensive care patients had not been reached since the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in April 2020. This Wednesday, 5,902 patients were still in critical care, with 441 new admissions in twenty-four hours, according to figures from health authorities.
The number of new admissions declined slightly, after 555 Tuesday and 492 Monday, levels equivalent to the peak recorded during the second wave. The total number of people hospitalized for coronavirus stands at 30,868, with 2,072 admissions in the last twenty-four hours, according to Public Health France.
Some 11.6 million first doses of vaccine
Vaccination continues in the territory, with 11.6 million people having received an injection, or 22.1% of the adult population, and 4.1 million having received both doses, or 7.8% of the adult population. .
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday reaffirmed the executive’s confidence in the anti-Covid vaccine from Astra Zeneca and from the Johnson & Johnson laboratory, although suspended in the United States and South Africa because of rare cases of blood clots in some patients. The European Medicines Agency said it would rule on the vaccine next week in a press release.