France has registered 27 new deaths linked to Covid-19 since Friday in hospitals, bringing to 29,920 the total number of deaths since the start of the epidemic, announced on Monday the Directorate General of Health (DGS). The balance sheet in the Ehpad (currently arrested at 10,497 deaths, for 19,423 hospital deaths) will be updated on Tuesday.
At the same time, the number of patients with Covid-19 in intensive care continues to decrease with 548 patients concerned, 25 fewer than on Friday. A total of 7,850 people are hospitalized for this infection (98 new admissions, including 10 serious cases, but a balance of -140 in three days).
Traffic still "worrying" in Guyana
The circulation of the virus in Guyana remains "worrying", underlines the ministry. The three hospitals in this overseas region announced Sunday that they have launched their "white plan" to deal with the accelerating epidemic, while the government has announced the arrival of a "crisis director".
Guyana counted 4,913 confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, including 129 hospitalized patients, 23 in intensive care, and 16 deaths.
"Epidemiological situation is stable" in the rest of the national territory
In the rest of the national territory, "the epidemiological situation is stable", indicates the DGS, which remains attentive "to the appearance of potential" clusters ", due in particular to family or festive gatherings during this summer period".
324 outbreaks of grouped cases have been identified since May 9, including 3 new ones. 197 are now "closed" while 127 are still active.
The DGS recalls "the usefulness of the StopCovid application in the fight against the epidemic" and "encourages all French people to download it", stressing that it "saves precious time in finding contact persons and quickly breaking the chains of contamination. ”
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