A record figure.
This Friday, the number of new cases of Covid-19 contamination exceeded the peak reached during confinement (7,578 cases as of March 31), with 8,975 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours, announces the Directorate General of Health in his record.
The test positivity rate rose to 4.5%, confirming the progression of contamination since mid-summer.
53 new sources of contamination have been identified over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of clusters identified to 1,640, including 1,009 closed.
4,671 people are hospitalized as a result of a Covid-19 infection, and 473 are in intensive care.
30,686 deaths since the start of the epidemic
In total, “30,686 people died in France, including 20,210 in hospitals and 10,476 in social and medico-social establishments” (ESMS), also indicates the health authority in its report.
A difference of 20 deaths compared to Thursday, which is explained by corrections "following the quality checks of data on deaths in ESMS", specifies the DGS.
The DGS recalls the importance of wearing a mask and other barrier gestures to limit new contaminations.
“Studies show that the risk of transmission goes from high when talking in a closed, poorly ventilated place where distances are difficult to maintain, to a low risk of transmission when wearing a mask.
The same goes outside, when there is a lot of crowding, ”she recalls.
60 vulnerable departments
According to Public Health France, on September 3, many departments were in a situation of moderate vulnerability (Ain, Ariège, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Aube, Aude, Aveyron, Bas-Rhin, Corse du Sud, Drôme, Gers, Haute -Savoie, Hautes-Pyrénées, Ille-et-Vilaine, Isère, Eure-et-Loir, Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Lot-et-Garonne, Indre-et-Loire, Marne, Mayenne, Mayotte, Meurthe-et-Moselle , Moselle, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Puy de Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pyrénées-Orientales, Réunion, Maine-et-Loire, Savoie, Seine-Maritime, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Yonne).
Others have been classified in high vulnerability (Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Côte d'Or, Essonne, Gard, Gironde, Guyane, Haute-Garonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Hérault, Loiret, Paris, Rhône , Sarthe, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Var, Vaucluse, Yvelines, Martinique, Guadeloupe including Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy).