365 patients with coronavirus have died in hospital in the past 24 hours.
The number of patients in intensive care continues to decrease, to 3,594, against 3,739 on Monday.
In total, 53,506 people have died in France since the start of the epidemic.
Fewer than 370 people died in the Covid-19 hospital on Tuesday, while the number of people hospitalized in intensive care continues to decline, according to data from Public Health France published on Tuesday.
In the past 24 hours, 365 patients with coronavirus have died in hospital, bringing the total since the start of the epidemic to 53,506 dead.
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The number of patients in intensive care continues to decrease, to 3,594, against 3,739 on Monday.
234 patients have entered intensive care in the past 24 hours, against 196 on Sunday.
The number of hospitalizations down
The number of people hospitalized with a Covid-19 diagnosis decreased slightly, to 27,611 against 28,229 the day before, after a peak of more than 33,000 patients reached on November 16.
The positivity rate (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) also continues to decline, to 10.8%, against 10.9% the day before and 13.1% seven days earlier.
Between 1,600 and 2,600 patients in intensive care in mid-December?
According to the most recent projections from the Institut Pasteur transmitted to AFP on Tuesday, between 1,600 and 2,600 patients should be hospitalized in intensive care in mid-December in France, i.e. at the bottom of the range that the government has set for itself. lift most containment measures.
President Emmanuel Macron announced that confinement would be replaced on December 15 by a curfew, provided the health situation improved.
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The objectives to be achieved are a number of new contaminations down to around 5,000 per day, and a number of patients in intensive care, reduced to a range of 2,500 to 3,000 against 4,900 at the peak of the epidemic in early November.