The report of Public Health France, published this Tuesday, January 12, reports 8,805 new hospitalizations over the last seven days, including 1,350 in intensive care.
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19,753 new Covid-19 contaminations have been identified in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 2,806,590 since the start of the epidemic.
Data up sharply compared to 3,582 cases on Monday.
But we must analyze these data with caution: on Monday, the published data are still impacted downward by the closure of analysis laboratories on weekends.
362 people have died from Covid-19 in hospital since the day before, according to Public Health France.
The total toll stands at 47,799 since the start of the epidemic.
1921 clusters including 725 in Ephad are under investigation to date.
The positivity rate is 6.5% today.
Before the Senate Social Affairs Committee, Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, affirmed that “
approximately 1% of variant of English origin
” is found “
among positive PCRs in France
”.
He also added that France could not "
be a country in which the rate of vaccination adherence would be lower than elsewhere
".
As of January 12, 189,834 people received the first dose of vaccine in France, including 51,483 in 24 hours according to VaccinTracker.
The government hopes to reach around 400,000 vaccinated by the end of the week.