The Covid-19 epidemic is still impacting hospitalizations in France, including critical care services, according to figures from health authorities released on Sunday.
The number of hospitalized patients is still on the rise, rising to 9,798 (9,648 Saturday, 9,546 Friday), including 399 new admitted.
1,852 patients in critical care
Over the last seven days, some 5,200 new hospitalizations have occurred, against some 4,500 recorded in one week the previous weekend.
Hospitalizations in critical care departments, which take care of the most serious cases, also continue to increase, with 1,852 patients (1,837 Saturday, 1,831 Friday), including 73 in 24 hours.
This indicator, closely scrutinized by the health authorities who want to avoid saturation of hospitals as in the West Indies, had fallen below the threshold of 1,000 patients on July 7.
Between Saturday and Sunday 44 people succumbed to Covid-19 (51 counted on Saturday, 74 Friday), bringing the total toll to 112,702 deaths since the start of the epidemic in March 2020.
On the side of contaminations, 21,172 cases were recorded on Sunday (against 24,427 Saturday and 26,453 Friday).
A "very worrying" situation in Guadeloupe and Martinique
In its weekly update Friday, Public Health France drew up a “mixed” assessment of the health situation, observing a slowdown in the progression of the incidence rate at the national level (236 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), but which does not yet translate to the hospital.
The health agency also highlighted a strong geographic heterogeneity, with a "very worrying" situation in Guadeloupe and Martinique, where contaminations are exploding and hospitals are overwhelmed.
Martinique thus has an incidence rate of nearly 1,200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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