According to the latest figures released by Public Health France on Saturday, less than 11,000 Covid-19 patients are currently in hospitals.

Critical care services welcomed 1,703 people on Saturday.

Since the start of the health crisis, 110,753 deaths have been linked to this disease.

The pressure continued to decrease on Saturday in hospitals, which have fewer than 11,000 Covid-19 patients, according to figures from Public Health France.

The health agency now lists 10,531 hospitalized patients with Covid-19, against 10,738 the day before.

Only 102 new people have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours with a diagnosis of Covid-19.

Critical care services (which bring together resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) accommodated 1,703 people, against 1,740 on Thursday.

110,753 deaths since the start of the epidemic

In 24 hours, only 24 new patients with severe forms of Covid were admitted to these services. Cumulative data over the last 7 days show 1,394 new hospitalizations including 318 admissions in critical care. France also deplores 22 new hospital deaths on Saturday due to the coronavirus, for a total of 110,753 deaths since the start of the epidemic, including 84,297 in hospital.

The number of new cases detected has increased slightly, with 2,624 patients screened (against 2,439 on Friday), but a test positivity rate over the last 7 days standing at 1.1% (against 1.2% the Eve).

On the vaccination side, 18,175,104 people are fully vaccinated on Saturday (two injections, or only one if they have been vaccinated with Janssen's product, at a single dose, or if they had already had the Covid before).

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And 31,964,313 people received at least one injection, or 47.7% of the total population and 60.9% of the adult population.