In the intensive care unit at Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis, April 16, 2021 (illustration). – Marin Driguez / SIPA
The number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 continued to decline on Wednesday, the pressure being at its lowest since the end of October, according to data released by Public Health France.
The health agency identified 13,526 people hospitalized in total, a decrease of 47% in one month (they were then 25,800). This figure had not fallen to this level since October 21. Likewise, intensive care units, which treat the most serious cases, had 2,326 patients on Wednesday, half the number of a month ago. This figure is at the lowest since October 22.
65 additional deaths
The outbreak has claimed 65 lives in the past twenty-four hours in hospital (up from 72 Tuesday and 96 a week ago), bringing the total number of deaths to 83,802 in hospital and 110,231 in total since. the onset of the disease, early 2020.
The number of contaminations has risen to 5,557 cases confirmed since the day before. The positivity rate over the past seven days, the percentage of the number of people who tested positive out of the total tested, was 2.3%, down from 3.1% on the previous Wednesday.
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran noted during a visit to the tennis tournament of Roland-Garros the “very favorable evolution” of the indicators, on this day of new lifting of a battery of restrictions.
Dining rooms have opened, as have gyms, and gauges in cinemas, museums and theaters have been raised. The improvement in the situation is due, among other things, to the progress of vaccination. According to the Directorate General of Health, 29,056,963 people received a first injection, and 13,082,882 a second. This represents 55.3% and 24.9% of the adult population, respectively.
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Pressure on the hospital at its lowest since October
Source link Pressure on the hospital at its lowest since October
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