The Covid care unit, at the Saint-Jean clinic in Cagnes-sur-Mer.
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The bar of 30,000 Covid-19 patients hospitalized in France was exceeded on Tuesday, according to daily figures from the French public health agency.
According to these data, 30,639 patients were hospitalized because of the coronavirus on Tuesday evening, against 29,907 the day before.
This is the highest total since the end of November, during the second wave of the epidemic.
Among these patients, 5,626 are in intensive care units, which treat the most serious forms of the disease, against 5,433 on Monday.
It is well above the peak of the 2nd wave (4,900 mid-November), even if we remain below that of the first (7,000 in April 2020).
In 24 hours, 409 new deaths were recorded at the hospital, for a total of 97,301 since the start of the epidemic, including nursing homes.
Nearly 10 million vaccinated
The number of confirmed cases of contamination in 24 hours is 8,045, a low total which can be explained by the fact that we are coming out of the Easter long weekend, where people have been tested less.
As of Friday, more than 46,000 new infections had been reported.
The positivity rate, which measures the percentage of people positive for Covid-19 out of all those tested, stood at 7.5% over the last seven days.
In addition, according to separate figures released by the Ministry of Health, 3.2 million people have been vaccinated (two doses) and 9.5 million have received their first injection (but not yet the second).
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