The sign of a clearing in the middle of the fifth wave of the coronavirus epidemic.

For the third day in a row, hospitalizations are down slightly in critical care services which receive patients with Covid-19, according to official figures released this Saturday evening.

These services have 3,852 seriously ill with Covid-19, against 3,895 the day before, 3,939 Thursday and 3,985 Wednesday.

On the other hand, this drop is not observed either in the total number of hospitalized patients (24,544, against 23,889 Wednesday), nor in the daily number of new cases of contamination identified.

The latter stands at 324,580, against 303,669 the previous Saturday.

However, the increase seems to be slowing down since the number of cases was 219,126 on Saturday January 1.

Too early to draw conclusions

On average, over the last seven days, there have been 297,000 daily cases against 279,000 the previous Saturday.

This calculation helps to smooth out the deviations observed from one day to the next, often artificially created by data collection problems.

It is too early to draw conclusions from the onset of decline observed in critical care but, if confirmed, it could be linked to the characteristics of the Omicron variant.

It is more transmissible than its predecessor Delta and also seems to cause fewer serious forms of the disease (without knowing how much this is due to its characteristics or to the fact that the population is already partly immunized by vaccination or previous infections).

For all these reasons, specialists consider it possible that Omicron saturates less resuscitation, since it causes less serious forms, while weighing heavily on hospital beds in general.

In the field of vaccination, 53.6 million people have received at least one injection (i.e. 79.5% of the total population) and 52.3 million now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 77.5% of the population total).

31.6 million people received a booster dose.

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