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.
311 deaths in 24 hours
This figure, scrutinized under a magnifying glass, had slowly declined last week, moving away 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).
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.
A total of 311 people have died from the coronavirus in hospital in the past 24 hours, up from 113 the day before.
Figures for new infections and vaccinations were not yet available.
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