1,420 patients with Covid-19 were in critical care on Thursday, according to figures published by Public Health France.
150 people have been admitted there in the past 24 hours, while the threshold of 1,000 patients in its services was crossed only a week ago.
The number of daily deaths linked to Covid-19 in hospitals is also on the rise with 52 deaths in one day.
The number of hospitalizations is also up this Thursday with 8,210 patients (including 712 new admissions in 24 hours) against 8,134 the day before and 7,236 a week ago.
“After the time of the epidemic wave came that of the hospital wave.
Here in Aix-en-Provence with increasingly young patients admitted to intensive care, 90% of them unvaccinated, ”said the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, during a visit to a hospital center .
54.3% of the population fully vaccinated
On the vaccination side, 44,051,833 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 65.3% of the total population) since the start of the campaign in France and 36,594,069 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 54.3% of the total population).
A third dose of vaccine against Covid-19 will be offered "at the start of the school year" for "the oldest and most fragile", Emmanuel Macron said Thursday, like several other countries.
The exact scope of people who will be offered this vaccine booster should be subject to arbitration "next week", according to the Ministry of Health.
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