In the Covid unit in Toulouse -
Tristan Reynaud / SIPA
While France is preparing for a new confinement, which comes into force on the night of this Thursday to Friday at midnight, the toll of the coronavirus epidemic in the country exceeded the 36,000 death mark on Thursday.
According to official data published by Public Health France, 36,020 people have died as a result of infection with Covid-19, including 250 in the last twenty-four hours.
In detail, 24,659 deaths occurred in hospitals and 11,361 in nursing homes and medico-social establishments, the data of which are not updated every day.
More than 47,000 new cases of Covid-19
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care or intensive care reached 3,147, with 395 new admissions since the day before and 2,278 over the last seven days.
Taking into account discharges, the number of patients currently in intensive care has increased by 102 in the last twenty-four hours.
The number of resuscitation beds, already raised from 5,100 to 5,800 after the first epidemic wave, rose to 6,400 at the start of the week and should soon exceed 7,000, according to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
"Whatever we do, nearly 9,000 patients will be in intensive care in mid-November," Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday evening, more than the 7,000 patients affected at the peak of the first epidemic wave in April.
More broadly, 2,607 additional people have been hospitalized for Covid-19 since Tuesday, and 15,786 in seven days.
French hospitals now accommodate 21,160 people infected with the coronavirus.
47,637 new positive cases have been recorded since Wednesday, and the positivity rate increases sharply to 19.4%, against 18.6% the day before and only 4.5% in early September.
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