They are now the guarantors of our deconfinement, according to Emmanuel Macron's words on Tuesday evening during his speech.
The indicators of the health crisis in France on Wednesday continue to fall.
According to Public Health France, 258 new patients were admitted to intensive care in twenty-four hours, against 269 on Tuesday.
In this service which welcomes the most seriously affected patients, 4,136 patients are now hospitalized there on Wednesday, according to health authorities.
They were 4289 the day before.
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A total of 29,944 people remain hospitalized in the country for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
A figure which continues to decrease slightly / increase.
384 new hospital deaths
The 50,000 death mark was crossed on Tuesday.
"We have reached 50,000 deaths […], we must continue our efforts", moreover hammered the President of the Republic during this speech.
The toll on Wednesday now stands at 50,495 deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic, with 384 new deaths in the past 24 hours in hospital.
This downward trend is confirmed on the screening side.
There have been 16,282 positive tests in the past 24 hours, up from 28,383 seven days ago.
The positivity rate for tests (proportion of the number of positive people compared to the total number of people tested) also declined slightly: 13%, against 13.1% on Tuesday.