Covid-19: less than 3,000 people in intensive care units

The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients continued to decline on Sunday, that of patients in intensive care units falling below the 3,000 mark, according to data from Public Health France. Currently, 2,993 coronavirus patients are being cared for in critical care services, which take care of the most seriously ill patients and which include intensive care beds, against 3,028 the day before.

This is the first time since the end of January that this figure has been so low, after remaining around 6,000 between mid-April and early May, at the height of the third wave.

In total, 16,775 Covid patients were hospitalized on Sunday in France (including 199 admitted in the last 24 hours), against 16,847 the day before.

This time we have to go back to the end of October, in full rise of the second wave, to find such a low number.

38% of the population received at least one injection

Since the day before, the disease has killed 44 people in hospital, bringing the total number of deaths recorded to 109,431 since the start of the pandemic.

8,541 new contaminations were also recorded on Sunday, against 10,675 the day before and 9,704 last Sunday.

The positivity rate (number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) continues to decline, to 3.2% over the last seven days, against 3.3% on Saturday.

As for vaccination, which will be generalized to the entire major population from Monday, 25,431,357 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 38% of the total population and 48.4% of the major population), among whom 10,777,150 people received two injections (16.1% of the total population and 20.5% of the adult population).