Covid-19 in France: the number of patients in intensive care at the highest since May

Nursing staff take care of a patient with Covid-19 in intensive care in Strasbourg on September 15, 2020. AP Photo / Jean-Francois Badias

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The epidemic situation in France continues to deteriorate.

For the first time since May, more than 1,500 people with Covid-19 are in intensive care.

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With 171 new admissions in the past 24 hours, it is now exactly 1,539 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalized in intensive care, a level not reached since last May.

But if we are still far from the peak of April where they were then more than 7,000, the situation is deteriorating rapidly and the pace is accelerating.

It only took seven days for the number of patients in intensive care to multiply by 2.5, almost 1,000 more in a week.

All other indicators are in line.

Whether it is the number of confirmed cases, the incidence, the number of clusters or the number of deaths, all are on the rise on Monday evening, October 12, while four new departments are placed at a high level of vulnerability. , bringing the total to 74.

Faced with this degraded situation, 

while he had so far always refused.

Emmanuel Macron should address the subject this Wednesday, October 14 during a television interview.

This will then be his sixth intervention on Covid-19 since the start of the crisis.

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