In a hospital in Grasse, January 22, 2021. -
Frederic DIDES / SIPA
The number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 on Sunday crossed the 26,000 mark, the highest since December, of which nearly 3,000 are in an intensive care unit, a figure which has refused to drop for several days, according to data from Public health France.
French hospitals welcomed 26,357 patients with Covid-19 on Sunday, against 25,864 on Saturday and 25,235 seven days ago.
Over the past 24 hours, 918 people have entered the hospital.
In the intensive care units, which receive the most serious cases, there were 2,955 patients (including 175 transferred in the last 24 hours).
They were 2,766 sick in sheaves a week ago.
172 deaths Sunday
Public Health France announced 172 deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths caused by the epidemic to 73,049.
The positivity rate among those tested was 7.1%, stable compared to Saturday (this rate was 6.6% on Sunday, January 17).
18,436 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.
Faced with these figures which do not decrease and the presence on the French territory of variants, British and South African in particular, much more contagious, the hypothesis of a third confinement is more and more evoked.
The government says it is waiting - for this week - for the verdict on the effects of the 6 p.m. curfew put in place almost two weeks ago.
More than a million people (1.027 million) had received the first dose of the vaccine on Sunday, since the start of the campaign, at the very end of December.
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