The national report issued by Public Health France on Tuesday indicates an increase in new hospitalizations
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized was down Monday, as well as that of patients in intensive care, but new hospitalizations were up, according to figures released Tuesday by health authorities.
Hospitals received 26,195 Covid-19 patients, including 1,857 who arrived in the past 24 hours. As of Monday, they were 26,478, including 1,431 new hospitalizations.
The intensive care unit, which receives the most serious cases, numbered 3,338 Covid patients, including 323 who had arrived since the day before. As of Monday, they were 3,371 in intensive care (including 306 entries).
82,812 deaths since the start of the epidemic
The figure for new contaminations was not immediately available.
The total death toll since the start of the epidemic has risen to 82,812, including 58,578 in hospital (+352 over the last 24 hours) and 24,234 in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments.
As of February 16, 3,162,635 vaccine injections had been performed, of which 815,547 involved a 2nd dose, since the start of the vaccination campaign at the very end of December.
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