Eight days after initiating the gradual lifting of confinement, France has 1,894 patients suffering from serious Covid-19 infection in the intensive care unit, including 69 admissions in the last 24 hours. Including patients discharged from this service, 104 additional beds are now available.
Back in person after being replaced by a simple press release in recent days, the director of the DGS, Jérôme Salomon, did not mention the number of recent deaths linked to the epidemic, as is usually the case.
By press release, the DGS then gave a total of 28,022 deaths since March. On Monday, the death toll was ... 28,239 dead. This decrease "is linked to a counting error (anomaly of 342) in the death toll of the medico-social establishments", she indicates.
If only the hospital environment is taken into account, an additional 125 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours, for a total of 17,714 deaths since the start of the epidemic.
Serological tests for caregivers
Jérôme Salomon especially wanted for a long time "to come back" to the different types of tests that can be performed in France. A few hours before him, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, had just announced that healthcare staff could benefit from serological tests "as of next week", on medical prescription.
These tests will be available to nursing staff "in hospitals, nursing homes, medico-social establishments", but "also in the city" and "to all staff working in the field of emergency accommodation".
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