Covid-19: nearly 1,000 patients in intensive care

Nearly 1,000 patients with Covid-19 are hospitalized on Tuesday in intensive care units, a figure that has been rising slightly for several days, according to data from Public Health France.

With 121 new admissions in 24 hours, 978 patients are now in critical care wards, which are taking care of the most serious cases, up from 952 on Monday and 876 a week ago.

The total number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients, which passed the 7,000 mark on Monday, reached 7,137 on Tuesday, including 557 new patients admitted in the past 24 hours.

28 deaths in hospital have also been recorded since the day before.

Hospital indicators have been on the rise for two weeks

While France has been facing a surge in contamination since the beginning of July due to the Delta variant, which is more contagious, and the lifting of the latest restrictions, the pressure on the hospital has remained contained until then. But for two weeks, hospital indicators have started to rise again.

However, we observe "a decorrelation between hospitalizations and diagnoses," said Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Tuesday, explaining that thanks to vaccination, "there are fewer patients hospitalized for severe forms of Covid in our country than there were during the previous waves for an identical number of infected ". Public Health France has also specified on its data portal that "for technical reasons", the vaccination data for this day have not been communicated to it. As of Monday, 40,264,973 people had received at least one injection (or 59.7% of the total population) and 33,624,428 people had a complete vaccination schedule (or 49.9% of the total population).

Contamination side, the increase continues with 26,871 new positive cases recorded against 18,181 last Tuesday, the highest daily figure since April 28.