The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care services continued to decline on Saturday to drop below 4,300, the number of hospitalizations as a whole also continuing to decrease, according to figures from Public Health France.
Critical care services (which bring together resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) now have 4,271 Covid patients, including 134 new admissions in 24 hours, against 4,352 on Friday and more than 5,000 last Saturday.
Hospitalizations down and cap of 20 million first-time vaccinated
This figure has been declining almost continuously since the high point of 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.
The total number of hospitalizations for Covid also continues to decline, with 22,950 patients on Saturday, including 580 new hospitalizations, against 23,406 the day before.
This improvement in indicators is accompanied by an acceleration of the vaccine campaign, with the bar of 20 million first injections reached on Saturday, announced the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
The exact figures from the Directorate General of Health (DGS) were not yet available at the end of the afternoon.
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