This Friday, the coronavirus toll in France shows 57,567 deaths since the start of the epidemic, or 627 more deaths than the day before.

Like every Friday, this increase includes the number of deaths that have occurred in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments.

Data published by Public Health France reported on Friday 57,567 deaths from the coronavirus in France since the start of the epidemic, or 627 additional deaths.

This last figure includes the reports of deaths occurring in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments.

In total, 39,631 deaths occurred in the hospital and 17,936 in the latter establishments.

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In addition, more than 13,400 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified in the last 24 hours (13,406).

This brings the number of cases identified in total in France to 2,351,372 since the start of the epidemic.

Hospitalizations and resuscitation down

The total number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 is down over the past 24 hours, with 256 fewer hospitalizations.

A total of 24,975 people are in hospital because of the Covid-19 on Thursday, against 25,231 the day before.

On Monday, they were 26,333.

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The number of patients in intensive care continues to decrease, to 2,884 people, or 75 patients less in 24 hours.