Paris (AFP)
The number of deaths linked to Covid-19 has increased by 31 in hospitals over the last 24 hours in France, according to the government's website on Saturday, bringing the total, with the Ehpad, to 29,142 since the start of the epidemic.
However, the number of deaths in nursing homes has not been updated. According to the latest available data, dated June 2, they amounted to 10,350.
The number of people hospitalized in intensive care because of this disease continued to decline, with 35 patients less in 24 hours, to 1,059, according to this assessment based on data from Public Health France. This is the lowest figure since March 18.
It thus continues its permanent decline since the beginning of April when the peak in intensive care had been reached with more than 7,000 patients in serious condition (for a national capacity in intensive care of the order of 5,000 beds before the crisis).
These figures, based on data from Public Health France, were put online on the government's website, while the Directorate General of Health (DGS) had said Friday that it would not publish a new report during the weekend.
While France began last Monday the second phase of deconfinement, after having set up an unprecedented containment of the population for two months between March 17 and May 11, the epidemic of Covid-19 is currently "controlled" in the country, had estimated Friday the president of the scientific council, Pr Jean-François Delfraissy.
"The virus continues to circulate, in particular in certain regions (...), but it circulates at a slow speed. Where we had roughly several tens of thousands of cases, around 80,000 new cases per day in early March before containment, it is estimated that we are now around 1,000 cases approximately, "he explained on France Inter.
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