The number of Covid-19 patients in French hospitals has fallen below the 20,000 mark, a decline also observed for patients in intensive care units, according to data published on Saturday by Public Health France.
Hospitals in France currently accommodate 19,765 patients with Covid-19, including 468 admitted in the past 24 hours.
This is the first time since October 27 that this number has fallen below 20,000.
In the critical care services, which house the most seriously ill patients, there were 3,544 patients (against 3,631 the day before), including 115 recently admitted (139 the day before).
This figure had remained around 5,900 to 6,000 during the second half of April, the peak of the third wave, before falling sharply since early May.
Almost 23 million people received a first injection
Eighty-nine people have died of this disease in hospital (111 according to data released on Friday), bringing the toll to more than 108,500 since the start of the epidemic in early 2020.
Regarding vaccination, 22,908,758 people received a first injection since the start of the vaccination campaign, at the very end of December, and 9,690,645 two injections, according to the Directorate General of Health.
The government is targeting 30 million first injections by mid-June.
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