The fifth wave of Covid-19 continued to ebb on Sunday in France, with a slight slowdown in contamination, while the number of hospitalized patients remained stable, according to daily figures published by Public Health France.
The epidemic thus continues to decline: with 59,003 positive cases recorded in twenty-four hours, the average over the last seven days has fallen to 82,571 per day, against 86,562 on Saturday.
"A Collapse of the Omicron Wave"
Since the peak reached on January 25 (more than 366,000 cases on average), contaminations have dropped by 77%.
Olivier Véran spoke on Sunday of "a collapse of the Omicron wave, which reduces its pace by two each week".
The Minister of Health also underlined the "decrease in the health burden (with) fewer and fewer patients in hospitals", even if this trend changed during the weekend: there are now 28,643 patients with Covid-19 (+11 in twenty-four hours, -2,978 over one week) including 2,923 in critical care services (+5 in twenty-four hours, -382 over one week).
Stagnation of the vaccination campaign
At the same time, 79 infected people died in hospital, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to 136,663.
Vaccination also stalled on Sunday: 54.18 million French people received at least one dose (80.4% of the population), 53.15 million are fully vaccinated (78.8% of the population) and 38 .53 million received a booster dose.
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