Transport of a person in intensive care, illustration -
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The pressure on the intensive care services continued to rise on Monday with more than 4,200 Covid patients in these services, including 400 new admitted compared to the day before, according to hospital data compiled by Public Health France.
In total, 4,219 coronavirus patients were in intensive care in French hospitals on Monday, the highest since the end of November 2020. Among them, 401 admissions over the last 24 hours.
Half of the patients in three regions
More than a quarter of these intensive care patients (1,166) are hospitalized in Ile-de-France where the particularly worrying situation is pushing the health authorities to organize patient transfers to other regions.
The situation is also tense in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur and in Hauts-de-France, regions which each have 513 patients in intensive care.
With 1,609 new hospitalizations in 24 hours across the country, there are now 25,469 Covid patients in hospitals in France.
333 new deaths were recorded at the hospital in 24 hours.
Faced with the epidemic situation, Emmanuel Macron announced at a press conference in Montauban that “new decisions” would “undoubtedly” be taken in the coming days.
He referred to restrictions taken “in an appropriate and proportionate manner”.
Asked about a possible reconfinement of Île-de-France, the Head of State called for looking at "the reality of the epidemic, city by city, territory by territory".
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