A total of 674 people lost their lives in France after being infected with the Covid-2019 carrier virus. According to figures announced this Sunday evening by the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, the epidemic linked to the new coronavirus has killed 112 people in the country in the last 24 hours, a figure equal to that of Saturday.
During his daily press conference, the director of the DGS announced that 7240 people were hospitalized, including 1746 serious cases in intensive care. Severe forms are observed even in young adults: 50% of people hospitalized in intensive care are less than 60 years old.
From now on, more than 4000 tests are carried out every day and the capacities "are not saturated", continues the DGS. Over 60,000 tests have already been carried out. There are 16,018 cases confirmed by PCR test.
"We are rapidly moving towards a generalized epidemic on the territory", underlined Saturday the general direction of Health which calls to "strictly respect the confinement instructions (and) the barrier measures" such as washing your hands regularly and maintaining a minimum distance one meter between people.
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