Coronavirus: More than 5,100 patients in intensive care (Illustration) -
AFP
After a very slight decline on Wednesday, the number of patients in intensive care resumed its upward trajectory.
Patients hospitalized for Covid-19 in intensive care has exceeded 5,100, according to daily figures from Public Health France, while the Minister of Health Olivier Véran expects a peak in sheave by the end of April.
Thus Thursday, 5,109 people are in these services which treat the most serious cases, including 480 new entries in twenty-four hours.
2,025 new hospitalizations in 24 hours
On Monday, the peak of the second wave of the epidemic (a little more than 4,900 patients in mid-November) had been exceeded, still far from that of the first wave (a little more than 7,000 patients at the beginning of April 2020).
The number of people hospitalized for coronavirus is also up, to 28,581, the highest of this third wave, with 2,025 new hospitalizations in twenty-four hours.
Contamination and death figures were not yet available.
On the vaccination side, according to health authorities, 8,806,108 people received at least one injection of a vaccine against Covid-19 and 2,956,205 people received two doses.
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