The decline continues.

The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care services continued to decline on Friday to drop below 4,400.

The number of hospitalizations as a whole also continues to decrease, according to figures from Public Health France.

The health agency indicates that the critical care services (which bring together resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) now have 4,352 coronavirus patients, including 152 new admissions in twenty-four hours, against 4,442 Thursday.

This figure has been declining almost continuously since the high point, at 6,001, reached on April 26 (higher than the peak of the second wave of autumn at 4,900 but below that of the first wave in April 2020, around 7.000).

Twenty million French people will have received a dose of vaccine on Saturday

The total number of hospitalizations for Covid-19 also continues to decline, with 23,406 patients identified on Friday, including 733 new hospitalizations in twenty-four hours, against 23,656 the day before.

The disease has killed 173 people in hospital in the last twenty-four hours, against 131 the day before.

Figures for new contaminations and vaccine injections were not yet available at the end of the afternoon.

This improvement in indicators is accompanied by an acceleration of the vaccination campaign, the milestone of "20 million French" having "received at least one vaccine injection" to be reached on Saturday, the Minister of Health announced on Twitter, Olivier Véran.

This figure corresponds to the objective set by the government, which wants to reach 30 million first-time injections by mid-June.

According to Olivier Véran, "still nearly 600,000 vaccinations" were carried out on Friday.

“The exceptional mobilization continues across the country,” he tweeted.

" We continue !

From next week, doctors and pharmacists will be able to order Moderna vaccines to protect their patients in town, ”he recalled.

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