The coronavirus epidemic is progressing in France.
Nearly 3,900 Covid-19 patients are now hospitalized in intensive care or intensive care, according to figures from Public Health France published on Tuesday, November 3.
The number of people in intensive care is 3,869, with 469 new admissions in 24 hours, according to published figures.
The number of resuscitation beds, already raised from 5,100 to 5,800 after the first epidemic wave, rose to 6,400 at the start of the week and should soon exceed 7,000, according to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
Towards "100,000 cases per day"?
The number of new deaths amounts to 854, a balance sheet which takes into account both the increase over 24 hours in hospital deaths (+426) and mortality in nursing homes (+428), updated twice by week, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The virus has killed 38,289 people since the start of the epidemic, including 26,210 in hospitals.
The day before, the daily figures of Public Health France had reported 418 deaths in 24 hours, without taking into account the deaths in nursing homes.
While the French are being massively tested, the number of new cases of contamination has increased by 36,330 according to figures released on Tuesday.
The test positivity rate was stable from the previous day at 20.6%.
Tuesday, epidemiologist Antoine Flahaut feared on Twitter that "we exceed 100,000 cases per day at the end of the week".
The number of people hospitalized is 26,242, against 25,120 the day before.
Hospitals have welcomed 3,311 new Covid patients over the past 24 hours.
With AFP
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