Patients with a severe form of Covid-19 continue to arrive at the intensive care unit of the Bordeaux University Hospital – Mickaël Bosredon / 20Minutes
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care continued to increase, climbing to 5,838, according to figures released on Sunday by Public Health France. This indicator, which had not been so high since April 18, 2020, should increase further in the coming days.
“The pressure remains very strong and the number of intensive care admissions will continue to increase for several days, we know,” JDD the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, while hoping that “the braking measures” make it possible “to avoid reaching the peak of the first wave”, that is to say 7,000 patients in sheaves on April 7 and 8, 2020. At the Currently, the capacity of intensive care units in French hospitals has been increased to 8,000 beds for all pathologies.
The peak of the first wave is approaching
The total number of people hospitalized with a Covid-19 diagnosis on Sunday remains above the 30,000 mark (30,671), not far from the peaks of the first (32,000) and the second epidemic wave of the fall. Sunday, Public Health France recorded 178 deaths of more Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours, a very slight decrease compared to last Sunday (185), but higher than two weeks earlier. In total, the death toll since the start of the epidemic has risen to 99,000, the vast majority of them elderly, more vulnerable to the virus.
After a week of school closures, France began two weeks of confined vacation this weekend. Even before the application of these measures, the virus continued to progress but less rapidly, Public Health France said in its weekly bulletin on Friday. But “today we are around 40,000 daily cases. It remains very high, ”Olivier Véran told JDD, hoping that“ after stabilization will come the decline ”.