Hospitalizations and contaminations for Covid-19 still on the rise but the number of patients in critical care services continues to drop slightly, according to official figures released this Thursday evening.

In the past 24 hours, 425,183 people have tested positive, compared to 436,167 the day before, according to data published by Public Health France.

This brings the average over the past seven days to 337,192 daily cases, compared to 309,433 the previous Thursday.

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

The critical care services, which receive the most serious cases, had 3,842 Covid-19 patients on Thursday (including 301 admissions), against 3,852 the day before and 3,939 the previous Thursday.

A figure that continues to decline slightly.

The total number of hospitalized patients reached 27,931, of whom 3,053 were admitted in the past 24 hours.

The previous Thursday, 24,154 people were hospitalized.

A figure that has been rising steadily since the start of the year as contamination soars.

251 people died

This situation is explained by the characteristics of the Omicron variant, which is certainly much more contagious than its predecessors but also gives less severe forms of the disease.

This translates into shorter hospital stays and less frequent intensive care admissions.

The epidemic has caused the death of 251 people in 24 hours, according to data from the authorities published Thursday, bringing the total number of deaths in France to 128,114, since the start of the pandemic, almost two years ago.

In the field of vaccination, 53,731,886 million people have received at least one injection (79.7% of the total population) and 52,403,632 million now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 77.7% of the total population ).

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