Coronavirus: 320 new deaths and more than 20,000 cases in 24 hours (Illustration) -

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The number of patients hospitalized due to the coronavirus has seen a slight ebb, without the circulation of the virus slowing down, according to data from Public Health France published on Friday.

The health agency reported 3,298 patients hospitalized in intensive care, an indicator for the first time in five days below the 3,300 mark.

During previous waves of contamination, the number of patients in sheaves, the most serious cases, had reached 7,000 in the spring and 4,900 in the fall.

81,448 deaths since the start of the epidemic

However, the rate of contamination is not slowing down significantly.

Public Health France has recorded 20,701 new cases in twenty-four hours, bringing the total to 3,427,386 since the start of the epidemic.

A total of 26,424 people are hospitalized in France, a figure down for the fourth consecutive day.

In one day, 320 people died from the disease, bringing the total number of deaths to 81,448 since the start of the epidemic.

In one week, there were 10,079 new hospitalizations, including 1,767 intensive care admissions.

These figures have been relatively stable since the start of the year, while the health authorities are watching for the possible influx of patients because of new variants of the virus that have arrived in France, and deemed to be more contagious.

The positivity rate (the share of positive Covid-19 tests carried out over the last twenty-four hours) continues to decline, to 6.1%, or 0.1 point less than the day before.

The vaccination campaign has allowed 2,220,762 people to receive at least one dose by Friday, according to the Directorate General of Health, 61% of whom are over 75 years old.

Almost 618,000 people received two doses.

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