According to the latest report published by Public Health France, hospitalizations and resuscitations recorded an increase on Monday.
France also records 311 additional victims of the coronavirus, bringing the total death toll to 105,130 since the start of the epidemic.
The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units, which had slowly decreased for several days in a row, increased again on Monday, rising above 5,600, according to figures from Public Health France.
Critical care services (which combine resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) had 5,630 patients on Monday, including 386 admitted in the past 24 hours, against 5,585 on Sunday.
An increase also noted concerning hospitalizations.
Hospitalizations and resuscitations on the rise
Under a magnifying glass, the number of resuscitations had slowly declined last week, moving away a little from the 6,000 mark exceeded on April 26.
This bar, below which the number of patients hospitalized in these departments has been fluctuating since mid-April, is below the peak of the first wave in April 2020 (around 7,000) but higher than that of the second wave in the fall ( 4.900).
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The total of Covid patients in the hospital is also up slightly, to 28,950, against 28,818 the day before, with 1,495 new hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.
A week ago, hospitals were welcoming more than 30,000 Covid patients.
About 10% of the population fully vaccinated
A total of 311 people have died from the coronavirus in hospital in the last 24 hours, up from 113 the day before, bringing the number of deaths to at least 105,130 since the start of the epidemic in spring 2020, including 78,906 in hospital .
In 24 hours, the number of new confirmed positive cases is 3,760, a figure still lower on Monday after the weekend when fewer tests are carried out.
The positivity rate, which corresponds to the percentage of people infected among those who are tested, has fallen to 7.6% over the last seven days (rate consolidated at D-3).
On the vaccination side, 16,133,547 people received at least one injection, of which 6,688,302 were fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine (i.e. 10% of the total population and 12.7% of the major population), indicates the General Directorate. of health (DGS).