More than two weeks after the establishment of containment in France, the Covid-19 continues to claim more victims every day. This Wednesday, the epidemic linked to the new coronavirus resulted in an additional 509 deaths in 24 hours in hospital, for a total of 4032 deaths. The day before, 499 people had died.
Announced by the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, during his traditional daily press point, this assessment is the heaviest on a day since the start of the epidemic, two weeks after unprecedented containment measures implemented on the whole territory. And this, while deaths in Ehpad are still not included in this tightened calculation only on deaths in hospital.
1,491 hospitalized patients discharged in 24 hours
On this point, Jérôme Salomon said that a device allowing all establishments to report deaths linked to Covid-19 had been put in place. "The data is starting to go up," he said, adding hoping to be able to provide "tomorrow".
The number of people hospitalized was 24,639, 1,882 more than Tuesday. Among these patients, 6017 serious cases require very heavy intensive care. It is 452 more in 24 hours, much more "than the initial capacity of France in intensive care", around 5000 places, said Jerome Salomon. But six less than the day before.
On the profile of the people affected, some 34% of the patients in intensive care are less than 60 years old and 80 people hospitalized in intensive care are less than 30 years old. In addition, 1,491 people have left the hospital cured since March 1. This number is increasing every day. A total of 10,935 people hospitalized have recovered from Covid-19 infections since March 1.