Europe has remained the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic for the past seven days, but contaminations have continued to slow.
As in France, where the health authorities identified 12,459 new cases this Friday, against 13,563 Thursday and 16,282 Wednesday.
The test positivity rate also continues to decline and stands at 11.7%, against 12.2% the day before.
The number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units is decreasing day by day.
This Friday, they were 3,871 severe cases hospitalized, against 4,006 Thursday.
Of these, 206 have been admitted in the past 24 hours.
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In all, 28,620 patients are treated in hospitals in France.
A figure which continues to decline since it stood at 29,282 Thursday and 29,944 Wednesday.
51,914 deaths
But the epidemic continues to be rife and 396 deaths linked to Covid-19 have been recorded in the last 24 hours in the hospital.
According to the latest report from Public Health France, 564 people have also died of the disease since Tuesday in social and medico-social establishments, such as nursing homes.
In total, SARS-CoV-2 has claimed the lives of 51,914 patients since the start of the epidemic in France.
Among these deaths, 35,512 were recorded in hospitals and 16,402 in social and medico-social establishments.