In the past 24 hours, more than 56,000 new cases of coronavirus contamination have been detected on Thursday, and nearly 2,500 people were in critical care, a figure up slightly compared to the day before, according to figures from Public Health France.

Precisely 56,854 new cases have been confirmed, according to figures from Public Health France.

It was over 61,000 on Wednesday, according to the health agency.

The white plan in six hospitals

Thursday morning, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran advanced a much higher figure and a record of contaminations in 24 hours, at 72,000. A level never reached in two years of health crisis. The previous record, around 70,000, dated from early November 2020. At the same time, hospital pressure continues with a total of 2,461 patients (2,426 on Wednesday), treated in critical care units which deal with severe forms of the disease. sickness. In 24 hours, 243 patients integrated these services.

There were 1,007 only on November 23, the lowest before the arrival of the fifth wave of the pandemic in France.

Hospitals now treat 13,363 hospitalized Covid-19 patients (+1,250 in 24 hours).

Sign of the tension experienced by hospitals, six regions have already reactivated the white plan, including Ile-de-France on Wednesday, allowing in particular to deprogram operations and reassign staff to critical care services.

A booster dose for 12 million French people

The seven-day data, which smooths out daily variations and gives an underlying trend, is also on the rise.

On Thursday, 6,068 hospitalizations were recorded over a week.

For critical care admissions, the figures are respectively 1,405 patients against 1,381 patients on Wednesday.

The outbreak resulted in the deaths of 130 hospital patients within 24 hours, according to SPF figures available from the Geodes database.

A total of 120,168 patients have died from Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic.

Regarding vaccination, 52,213,976 people have received at least one injection (77.4% of the total population) and 51,133,749 people are fully vaccinated (75.8% of the total population).

Since the beginning of September, 12,985,227 people have received a booster dose.

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