Coronavirus: More than 3,400 patients in intensive care (Illustration) -

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The number of coronavirus patients hospitalized in intensive care exceeded 3,400 people on Monday, a level that had not been reached since the beginning of December, according to figures published by Public Health France.

Currently, 3,407 Covid-19 patients are in intensive care, and these services which take care of the most serious forms have recorded 274 new admissions in twenty-four hours.

We have to go back to December 3 to find an equivalent number of patients in these services.

France was then in the downward phase of the second wave of the epidemic, which had peaked at 4,903 patients in intensive care on November 16.

This number fell to 2,573 on January 7 and has been rising steadily since.

Nearly 85,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic

In total, 25,831 patients with a diagnosis of Covid-19 are hospitalized, or 367 more than the day before, with 1,529 new hospitalizations in twenty-four hours.

Since the start of the epidemic, Covid-19 has killed 84,639, including 60,159 in hospitals (i.e. 334 deaths in 24 hours) and 24,480 in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments, according to government data.

On the other hand, only 4,646 new contaminations have been recorded since the day before, against more than 22,000 cases on Sunday, the figures for the beginning of the week still marking a low because fewer tests are carried out at the weekend.

The positivity rate, which measures the percentage of people positive for the Sars-CoV-2 virus among those tested, increased to 6.4%, after 6.3% the day before.

On the vaccination side, 1,161,983 people are now vaccinated against Covid-19 (after two injections), according to figures adopted on Saturday, and 2,564,530 people have received at least one dose of vaccine.

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