More than 13,000 new cases of covid-19 and 146 deaths in 24 hours

Coronavirus: More than 2,000 people in intensive care (Illustration) -

The coronavirus has killed 146 people in the past 24 hours.

In addition, a new threshold has been reached since yesterday: the number of Covid-19 patients currently in intensive care has exceeded 2,000 people, a figure that has not been known since May, according to official figures from Public Health France.

At the peak of the epidemic, in April, more than 7,000 patients were hospitalized in sheaves, a number which fell sharply until the end of July, before gradually rising.

Over the past 24 hours, 269 new patients have been admitted to intensive care (against 147 on Sunday).

The number of patients with the most severe form of the disease currently hospitalized in an intensive care unit is 2,090, 151 more than the day before.

Health Minister Olivier Véran said last Thursday that France had a total of 5,800 intensive care beds.

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A tense situation in Ile-de-France hospitals

The situation is particularly tense in Ile-de-France: with 605 patients on Monday, up sharply compared to Friday (528), the rate of occupancy of intensive care beds by Covid patients has exceeded 50% in the region ( 54%), said the Regional Health Agency.

In addition, at the national level, the positivity rate (proportion of positive tests compared to the total tests carried out) continues to increase rapidly, to 13.4%, against 9% only twelve days ago and around 4.5% at the start. September.

The number of new cases in 24 hours stood at 13,243.

Since the start of the epidemic, 33,623 people have died from Covid-19 in France.

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