Coronavirus: More than 300 deaths in 24 hours in hospital (Illustration) -

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In the last twenty-four hours, 301 people have died of Covid-19 in hospital, after 379 deaths already on Monday, the highest figure recorded for seven days.

Nearly 3,600 people with the virus were treated in intensive care on Tuesday evening, a figure up slightly from the day before, according to the latest data from Public Health France.

With 3,586 people treated in these services, reserved for the most serious cases, including 366 received during the last twenty-four hours, against 3,544 the day before, the level of occupation is similar to that of early December, at the end of the second epidemic wave of coronavirus.

But this level remains far from the peak of this second wave (4,900) and, above all, of the first wave in the spring (7,000).

More than 87,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic

The total number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 reached 25,263 on Tuesday, up from Monday (+1,705 people).

In total, 87,246 people have died since the start of the epidemic, about a year ago, also taking into account the situation in nursing homes.

Also on Tuesday evening, 22,857 positive cases were recorded by Public Health France.

The positivity rate, which measures the percentage of positive tests on all tests, was 7.3% as the day before.

It stood at 6% in mid-February.

Faced with the progression of the more contagious variants of the coronavirus, the government has established localized containments on weekends on the entire coast of the Alpes-Maritimes and for the urban community of Dunkirk.

It has also placed 20 departments, which notably cover Paris, Lyon and Marseille, under increased surveillance, with the possibility of taking the same measures there.

Regarding vaccination, 3,036,605 people had received at least one injection on Monday, according to the health agency.

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