Coronavirus: More than 22,000 new cases and 352 deaths in 24 hours (Illustration) -

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The number of patients hospitalized for coronavirus continued to increase on Tuesday, to just over 27,000, including some 2,000 patients who arrived in the past twenty-four hours, while the number of people in intensive care was stable compared to the day before , according to data from Public Health France.

Hospitals had 27,005 patients with Covid-19, including 2,006 who arrived in twenty-four hours.

The day before, the hospitals housed 26,888 Covid patients (some have therefore been discharged from the hospital since the day before).

343 intensive care admissions

In the intensive care units, which receive the most serious cases, there were 3,071 patients (of which 343 entered in the last twenty-four hours).

There were 3,031 patients in sheaves on Monday and 2,829 a week ago.

This number, an indicator particularly monitored by the authorities because it indicates the pressure on hospital services, fell back below 3,000 on December 10, while the second wave of the epidemic ebbed after the reconfinement of the population six weeks earlier.

More than 74,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic

Public Health France has also announced 352 additional deaths in hospital in the past twenty-four hours, bringing the total number of deaths caused by the epidemic to 74,106 (including 51,863 in hospital).

After the usual post-weekend low, the number of contaminations has risen, with 22,086 new cases confirmed since Monday.

Nearly 1.2 million first dose of vaccine

Faced with these figures which are fueling concern among specialists, concerned about the dissemination on French territory of variants, British and South African in particular, much more contagious, the government is still giving itself time to observe the results of the curfew. at 6:00 p.m., before deciding on a possible new confinement.

Finally, nearly 1.2 million people (1,184,510 precisely) had received a first dose of the vaccine according to figures communicated Tuesday evening by the Directorate General of Health, since the start of the campaign launched at the very end of December.

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