While the executive is preparing to put new metropolises on maximum alert, as its spokesperson Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday, the coronavirus epidemic continues to grow in France.
Public Health France lists in its daily report 166 deaths linked to Covid-19 in hospitals over the past 24 hours.
At least 34,048 people have succumbed to the disease since the start of the epidemic in France, including 23,036 in hospitals.
Some 26,676 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus since Tuesday and the test positivity rate (proportion of positive people out of all those tested) continues to increase, also indicates Public Health France.
It stood at 13.7% on Wednesday (it was 13.6% on Tuesday).
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The number of new intensive care admissions also continues to increase.
This indicator is particularly observed by the authorities, who fear an influx of patients who would clog emergency and intensive care departments.
1,584 new intensive care admissions in one week
This Wednesday, there are 1,584 new admissions over a week, specifies the SPF online database.
The current national capacity is around 5,000 intensive care beds.
In its report for the day, the government indicates that 2,239 people are currently in intensive care, including 284 admissions since the day before.
In all, 9,375 patients have been admitted to hospital in the past week, due to contamination with the virus.
This means that there are currently 13,162 people infected with the coronavirus, currently hospitalized, or 1,754 more in 24 hours.
Finally, 1,852 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 under investigation, that is to say 139 more than on Tuesday. .