The health situation linked to the coronavirus continues to improve.

According to the latest report from Public Health, the number of patients in hospital and in intensive care continues to decline.

There are now less than 1,800 people in critical care units.

The pressure continued to decrease Thursday in hospitals, which have less than 12,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, according to figures from Public Health France.

The largest hospital group in France, the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), on Thursday lifted its "white plan", "in view of the favorable development of trends that we have known for several weeks", announced its direction.

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The pressure keeps releasing 

In detail in France, on the side of hospitals, the pressure of the epidemic continued to ease, with 11,114 patients with Covid-19 hospitalized, against 11,519 the day before, according to data from Public Health France. Only 198 new people were hospitalized with a diagnosis of Covid-19. 1,799 people were in critical care services, which take care of the most serious cases, against 1,873 on Wednesday. These services recorded 39 new admissions in 24 hours.

On the vaccination side, 17,363,854 people are fully vaccinated on Thursday (two injections, or only one if they have been vaccinated with Janssen's product (single dose) or if they had already had Covid before). And 31,393,190 people received at least one injection, or 46.9% of the total population and 59.8% of the adult population.