More than 300 dead in 24 hours, the decline continues in intensive care

In a hospital in Nantes (illustrative image).

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In the past twenty-four hours, just over 300 Covid-19 patients have died in hospital, while the number of patients in intensive care continues to decline, according to data from Public Health France published on Thursday.

In the past twenty-four hours, 326 patients with Covid-19 have died in hospital, compared to 313 the day before, bringing the total since the start of the epidemic to 54,140.

Pressure drops in hospitals

Pressure also continues to slowly ease on hospitals: the intensive care units counted 3,415 hospitalized patients Thursday against 3,478 Wednesday, with 184 new admissions over twenty-four hours (161 the day before).

The number of people hospitalized with a Covid-19 diagnosis also continues to decline, to 26,675 against 26,986 the day before, after a peak of more than 33,000 patients reached on November 16.

An achievable goal

The positivity rate (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) was 10.7% (10.8% on Wednesday).

The number of new cases of contamination confirmed in the last twenty-four hours was 12,696, against 14,064 the day before.

President Emmanuel Macron announced that confinement would be replaced on December 15 by a curfew, provided the health situation improved.

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.

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