China News Agency, Paris, March 23 (Reporter Li Yang) On the 23rd local time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in France reached 4.31 million.

The current incidence of new crowns in the Paris region is soaring, and the number of severely ill patients continues to rise.

  According to the epidemic data released by the French Ministry of Health that night, there were 14,678 newly confirmed cases in France on the 23rd, and the total number of confirmed cases was 4313073.

According to Worldometer's real-time statistics, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in France has now surpassed the United Kingdom, ranking fifth in the world.

The cumulative number of deaths in France is now 92,908, with 287 new deaths.

The number of inpatients with the new crown in France increased to 26,756, and the number of critically ill patients increased to 4,634.

  The epidemic situation in the Paris Region continues to worsen.

According to the latest data released by the Paris Region Health Bureau, the incidence of new crowns in the region has increased to 551 new crowns per 100,000 inhabitants, greatly exceeding the official warning threshold; the number of severely ill patients with new crowns in the region has increased to 1,370.

  The Paris Region Health Bureau also revealed that the incidence of new crowns in the region between 20 and 50 years old has increased sharply to 700 new crown infections per 100,000 inhabitants; Paris Region Seine-Saint-Denis Department is 20 to 50 years old The population’s incidence of new crowns has increased to 800 for every 100,000 residents.

At the same time, an increasing number of relatively young critically ill patients are admitted to the intensive care unit.

  The Paris Region Health Bureau assessed that the number of critically ill patients in the region is likely to exceed 1,500 in the next few days. Therefore, it is necessary to continue to increase the number of intensive care beds and continue to cancel the planned surgical arrangements to increase the number of intensive care beds to 2,200 The goal.

  French health experts warned that if the spread of the virus cannot be slowed down in the short term, the medical system will face "unprecedented pressure" in the next three weeks.

French President Macron said on the 23rd that France will open new crown vaccination for people over 70 years old from this weekend, nearly a month earlier than originally planned.

Macron requested that the vaccination schedule should continue to be accelerated.

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