The coronavirus epidemic continues to progress in France: 196 people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 70,142 since the onset of the disease in France, according to Public Health France this Saturday January 16.
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21,406 new cases were detected.
Since the start of the epidemic, 2,894,347 people have tested positive.
Over the last seven days, 9,653 patients have been hospitalized with Covid, including 1,402 in intensive care.
1921 epidemic outbreaks are currently under investigation, 705 in nursing homes.
The Ministry of Health also communicated on the number of people vaccinated.
24,316 have been used in the last 24 hours.
A total of 413,046 priority people have been vaccinated since the start of the campaign on December 26, 2020.
