This Thursday, the coronavirus toll in France shows 56,940 deaths since the start of the epidemic, or 292 more deaths than the day before in hospital.

In addition, more than 13,700 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours.

While Prime Minister Jean Castex spoke on Thursday on the easing of the confinement for December 15, data published by Public Health France show 56,940 deaths from the coronavirus in France since the start of the epidemic, or 292 deaths over the last 24 hours.

In addition, more than 13,700 new cases of Covid-19 were identified over the same period (13,750).

As of Wednesday, the daily average over the previous seven days was 11,000 contaminations.

This brings the number of cases identified in total in France to 2,337,966 since the start of the epidemic.

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Hospitalization and resuscitation down

The total number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 is down over the past 24 hours, with 327 fewer hospitalizations.

A total of 25,231 people are in hospital because of the Covid-19.

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The same decrease is observed for resuscitations.

82 fewer people were registered in these services in 24 hours.

Thus, less than 3,000 patients (2,959) are currently in an intensive care unit.