These figures do not take into account the latest deaths in nursing homes and medico-social centers, which will not be updated until Tuesday. The Covid-19 has killed 23 people in hospitals in the past 24 hours, according to the daily report of the Directorate General of Health released on Monday.
The total number of coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the epidemic in March has now reached 29,663 victims.
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To date, 9,693 patients are still treated in French hospitals, 142 of which have been in the past 24 hours.
The number of patients with a severe form of the disease continues to decline in the intensive care units, where 701 of them remain hospitalized, against 715 on Sunday. In these services reserved for the most serious cases, 16 patients with the new coronavirus have been admitted in the last 24 hours.