It's still dropping.
The number of contaminations and people hospitalized due to Covid-19 continued to decrease on Thursday, a sign of the continued decline of the epidemic, according to figures published by Public Health France.
The daily average of new contaminations over seven days, which smoothes the variations, stood at 43,865 this Thursday, down from the previous day (46,080) and seven days earlier (80,980).
This decline is part of a general downward trend since a peak reached in early April around 140,000 cases.
The decline also continued at the hospital: 21,880 Covid patients were hospitalized on Thursday, against 22,319 the day before and 24,130 a week earlier.
More than 1,447 patients in sheave
In detail, the critical care services, which treat the most serious forms of the disease, welcomed 1,447 patients, instead of 1,465 on Wednesday and 1,629 last Thursday.
The number of new daily hospital admissions on Thursday, however, was slightly higher than the previous day: 1,116 against 991. The same was true for intensive care units, which admitted 117 Covid patients in the past 24 hours, against 98 the day before.
The disease claimed 123 people in 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths in France to 146,498 in more than two years.
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