The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, alerted Wednesday evening to the significant increase in the number of patients placed in intensive care for a Covid-19 infection.

"The situation continues to deteriorate," said at a press conference late Wednesday, Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, in the face of the explosion of new cases of coronavirus in the territory.

The circulation of the virus is not without consequences.

Thus, the proportion of Covid patients in intensive care has started to increase again: 19% nationally, or 950 Covid patients currently in intensive care.

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