Coronavirus: 53,816 dead in France, pressure is easing on hospitals

A little more than 300 Covid-19 patients have died in the Covid-19 hospital, while the number of patients in intensive care continues to decline, according to data from Public Health France published on Wednesday.

In the past 24 hours, 313 patients with Covid-19 have died in hospital, up from 365 the day before, bringing the total since the start of the epidemic to 53,816.

Pressure also continues to slowly ease on hospitals: intensive care units counted 3,478 patients on Wednesday against 3,594 on Tuesday, with 161 new admissions over 24 hours, against 234 the day before.

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Coronavirus: follow the evolution of the situation Wednesday, December 2

26,986 hospitalizations

The number of people hospitalized with a Covid-19 diagnosis fell slightly, to 26,986 against 27,611 the day before, after a peak of more than 33,000 patients reached on November 16.

The positivity rate (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) was identical to that of the day before, at 10.8%.

However, the number of new cases of contamination recorded in the last 24 hours, was up Wednesday, amounting to 14,064, against 8,083 the day before.

Between 1,600 and 2,600 resuscitations in mid-December? 

According to the most recent projections from the Institut Pasteur transmitted to AFP on Tuesday, between 1,600 and 2,600 patients should be hospitalized in intensive care in mid-December in France, i.e. at the bottom of the range that the government has set for itself. lift most containment measures.

President Emmanuel Macron announced that confinement would be replaced on December 15 by a curfew, provided the health situation improved.

The objectives to be achieved are a number of new contaminations down to around 5,000 per day, and a number of patients in intensive care, reduced to a range of 2,500 to 3,000 against 4,900 at the peak of the epidemic in early November.