While the Minister of Health Olivier Véran presented this Wednesday a series of new health restrictions to fight the epidemic, the number of Covid-19 contaminations continues to increase day after day.
Public Health France has identified 13,072 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, against 10,008 the day before.
This is not a record, however, since the threshold of 13,000 had already been exceeded this weekend.
The positivity rate (proportion of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) increases again, for the fifth day in a row.
It now stands at 6.2%.
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Over the past seven days, 4,244 patients have been hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Among these patients, 675 were admitted to intensive care (+ 24 compared to the day before), indicates the public health service.
1039 clusters under investigation
Since the start of the epidemic, at least 31,459 deaths linked to Covid-19 have been recorded in France, including 20,888 in hospitals.
43 deaths were recorded in 24 hours.
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Every day, the figures published by Public Health France also include the number of clusters identified in the country.
This Wednesday, the total number of clusters under investigation in the country stands at 1,039 (+70 since Tuesday), of which 189 have been identified in nursing homes.
