The health situation continues to deteriorate sharply in France.
While the government has just announced new measures to stem the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, the authorities have recorded 41,622 new contaminations over the past 24 hours, a record.
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Public Health France also deplores 165 additional deaths in hospitals on Thursday, against 166 on Wednesday.
At least 34,210 people have succumbed to illness from the new coronavirus since the start of the epidemic in the country, including 23,198 in hospital.
10,166 new hospitalizations in one week
The number of new admissions to intensive care or intensive care 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.
This Thursday, there are 1,627 new admissions to these services over a week, according to the SPF online database.
The current national capacity is around 5,000 intensive care beds.
A total of 10,166 patients have been admitted to hospital over the past seven days due to contamination with the virus.
1955 clusters in France
Among other indicators, Public Health France notes that the test positivity rate (proportion of positive people on all tests performed) continues to increase and now stands at 14.3%.
On Wednesday, it stood at 13.7%.
Finally, 1955 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, i.e. 201 more than the standby.
