According to figures published by Public Health France, France has recorded a slight decrease in new hospitalizations and intensive care admissions linked to Covid-19 since Thursday.
Pressure on intensive care remains high, but new admissions have dropped to 317, from 382 two days ago.
France has recorded a slight decrease in new hospitalizations and in resuscitation related to Covid-19 since Thursday, according to figures given on Saturday by Public Health France, which had not published statistics the day before.
The pressure on the intensive care services, which welcome patients with severe forms of Covid, remains high, with 4,353 patients on Saturday, against 4,246 on Thursday, a new high since the end of November.
But new admissions have dropped to 317 (from 382 48 hours ago).
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New hospitalizations have also fallen: 1,348 in the last 24 hours, against 1,661 on Thursday.
There are now 25,537 patients with Covid in French hospitals, against 25,389 on Thursday.
The disease took 185 people to hospital in 24 hours (up from 274 Thursday), bringing the total number of deaths to some 92,000 since the outbreak began more than a year ago.
The indicators had not been published Friday because of a technical incident, according to the health agency.
A third of the French (16 departments, including the entire Ile-de-France) have been subject to new restrictions since Saturday, but it remains to be seen whether these measures will be enough to slow the progression of the virus.