The Covid-19 epidemic continues to progress in France.
The country recorded Saturday, September 19 a new daily record of cases of contamination with the coronavirus, with 13,498 new cases diagnosed in 24 hours, or 442,194 cases since the start of the epidemic, show the figures published by Public Health France.
The previous record, set the day before, marked an increase of 13,215 cases in 24 hours.
Increase in hospitalizations and deaths
The number of new hospitalizations over the last seven days also stood at 3,853 against 3,626 on Friday, and the number of intensive care admissions to 593 against 571 the day before.
The positivity rate (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) increased, for the first time in a few days, to 5.6%, against 5.4%.
France has recorded 26 new deaths in 24 hours, bringing the total of deaths to 31,274 since the start of the epidemic last March.
This figure of deaths concerns only those having occurred in the hospital, the data for the social and medico-social establishments (Ephad) being updated only every Tuesday and Friday.
Public Health France had announced Friday 122 deaths in hospitals, with a catch-up of data concerning 76 deaths hitherto not included in the assessments.
With AFP and Reuters
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