Little change on Sunday in hospital figures for the Covid-19 epidemic compared to the previous assessment, according to Public Health France.

These figures remain stable at a contained level.

Fewer than 8,000 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in hospitals and the test positivity rate remains low.

Hospital figures for the Covid-19 epidemic remained stable and at a level that was still contained on Sunday, according to Public Health France.

Hospitals counted 7,913 Covid-19 patients on Sunday (compared to 7,912 on Saturday and 8,986 the previous Sunday), including 1,104 in critical care (1,102 the day before and 1,345 seven days ago).

Over the last 24 hours, 41 patients (against 79 the day before) entered the hospital and 12 patients (17 the day before) were admitted to critical care, reserved for the most seriously ill patients.

At least 111,190 deaths linked to Covid since the start of the epidemic

In 24 hours, 9 people died from Covid-19 in hospital, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease to at least 111,190 since the start of the epidemic in early 2020, including 84,717 in hospital.

On the side of contaminations, 2,549 new cases (3,006 Saturday) have been confirmed over the last 24 hours.

The positivity rate, which represents the number of positive tests compared to all tests performed, remains low at 0.8% over the last seven days.

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Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 34,549,222 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 51.2% of the total population) and 24,426,131 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 36.2% of the population). ).