France has registered 35 new deaths in hospitals linked to Covid-19 since Friday, bringing the total number of deaths to 29,813, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday. The number of patients in intensive care continues to drop with 619 patients, 15 less than Friday, the date of the last assessment. A total of 8,688 people are hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection in France.
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Since the start of the epidemic, 19,325 people have died in hospitals. Mortality figures for social and medico-social establishments, including nursing homes, will be updated on Tuesday by Santé publique France.
Four regions account for 74% of intensive care patients
Four regions (Ile-de-France, Grand-Est, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Hauts-de-France) account for 74% of patients hospitalized in intensive care. In Overseas France (Guadeloupe, Guyana, Reunion, Martinique, Mayotte), there are 213 hospitalizations, including 37 in intensive care.
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In Guyana, traffic remains "worrying", recalls the Directorate General of Health and two patients were transferred to Guadeloupe during a first air medical evacuation by a military aircraft. Other evacuations "will take place in the coming days," said the ministry.