Last Saturday, the number of new cases of Covid-19 had crossed the 27,000 mark, a record threshold since the launch of large-scale tests in France.
This Tuesday, Public Health France detected 12,993 contaminations in 24 hours, a figure that is still very high.
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The positivity rate (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) has now reached 12%, compared with 11.6% the day before.
Since the start of the epidemic in France, six months ago, 32,933 people have died from Covid-19, including 22,077 in hospital, where 87 more deaths have been reported in 24 hours.
151 new clusters
In addition, the number of patients entering intensive care has increased further, after a record reached on Monday, of more than 1,500 patients, never equaled since the spring.
There are now 987 patients admitted to intensive care during the last 7 days and they are currently 1642 occupying a bed, or 226 more than on Monday.
There are also 5,689 patients who entered the hospital for seven days due to Covid-19, or 8,949 patients still treated on Tuesday (with 1,168 new entries).
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Finally, some 1,512 new clusters (foci of infection grouping together "at least three confirmed or probable cases, in a period of seven days", according to the definition given by Public Health France) are being investigated, i.e. 151 more than the day before.