With 1,304 patients in intensive care and less than 9,000 hospitalizations linked to Covid-19 hospitalized, the pressure in French hospitals continued to drop on Monday. Indeed, critical care, reserved for the most seriously ill, numbered 1,345 Sunday and 1,655 a week ago. This indicator has never been so low since October 3. In twenty-four hours, 41 patients were admitted to these services.
In total, hospitals accommodated 8,846 people with a Covid-19 diagnosis, against 8,986 the day before and some 31,000 in mid-April, at the peak of the third wave. This is the lowest figure for more than eight months. Hospital services have counted the arrival of 176 patients in twenty-four hours.
Almost half of the population has received at least one dose
In twenty-four hours, 44 people died (40 the previous Monday). The toll has now reached 111,041 deaths since the start of the epidemic, at the start of 2020. Since the day before, 509 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded with a stable positivity rate for a few days, at 0.8%.
On the vaccination side, almost half of the population (49.7%, 33,514,605 people) has received at least one injection and almost a third (32.2%, or 21,735,972 people) is fully vaccinated (either with two doses or with just one for those who had already had the coronavirus or received the Janssen vaccine). In recent days, the government and health authorities have insisted on the importance of being fully vaccinated to prevent the Delta variant, which is more transmissible than other strains.