After several days of slow decline, the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units, which started to rise again on Monday, dropped back below 5,600 on Tuesday, according to figures from Public Health France.

Critical care services (which combine resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) had 5,504 patients on Tuesday, including 355 admitted in the past 24 hours, against 5,630 patients the day before.

Still above the peak of the second wave

This is the lowest since April 5, when 5,433 patients were counted in these services welcoming the most serious cases.

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, under which the number of patients hospitalized in these services has been oscillating 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 down, to 28,427, against 28,950 the day before, with 1,591 new hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.

A week ago, hospitals were welcoming more than 30,000 Covid patients.

The declining positivity rate

A total of 243 people have died from the coronavirus in hospital in the past 24 hours, up from 311 the day before, bringing the number of deaths to at least 105,416 since the start of the epidemic in spring 2020, including 79,149 in hospital .

In 24 hours, the number of new confirmed positive cases is 24,371.

The positivity rate, which corresponds to the percentage of people infected among those who are tested, has fallen to 7.4% over the last seven days (rate consolidated at D-3).

On the vaccination side, 16,444,653 people received at least one injection, of which 6,924,103 were fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine (i.e. 10.3% of the total population and 13.2% of the adult population), indicates the General Directorate of Health (DGS).

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