The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized and those in critical care saw a further drop on Saturday, according to figures published by Public Health France.
The number of hospitalized patients, which had fallen below the 11,000 mark on Thursday, fell again slightly, to 10,654 against 10,816 on Friday, with 424 patients admitted in the last 24 hours (against 624 the day before).
Seven days earlier, there were 11,052 patients with the coronavirus.
The critical care services, which welcome the most serious patients, now treat 2,223 patients - including 124 admitted in the last twenty-four hours -, against 2,259 Friday, and 2,259 also Saturday, August 28.
For ten days, the number of patients admitted to intensive care units has fluctuated between 2,200 and nearly 2,300 without showing a clear downward trend.
While France is facing the Delta variant, hospital pressure remains particularly strong in Bouches-du-Rhône (924 hospitalized, including 213 in critical care), Martinique (654, including 151) and Guadeloupe (596, including 89).
The number of deaths remains high
The number of cases detected in twenty-four hours rose to 13,336 (against 13,466 on Friday) and the positivity rate, which measures the proportion of positive cases in relation to the number of people tested, is stable at 2.5%.
The daily number of deaths remains high: 85 people have been killed by the Covid-19 in twenty-four hours, bringing the total death toll to 114,856 since the start of the epidemic.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 49,101,185 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 72.8% of the total population) and 45,400,422 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 67.3% of the population). total).
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