Two days before the gradual lifting of confinement scheduled for Tuesday, the bar of 5,000 daily cases of coronavirus still seems so remote.
Santé Publique France counts 11,533 contaminations over these 24 hours, this Sunday.
It's 2,414 less than on Saturday.
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This daily statistic is subject to large variations depending on the day of the week, but the average over the last seven days is around 10,000 cases.
That is to say double the initial objectives of the government, which noted that these would not be achieved.
In the past 24 hours, 150 people have died in hospital from the coronavirus.
They were 199 in the balance sheet published on Saturday.
In total, France has deplored 57,911 deaths from the coronavirus since the start of the epidemic, including 39,975 in hospitals.
2871 patients in intensive care
The number of intensive care patients stands at 2,871 people, against 2,851 on Saturday.
This indicator, useful for assessing the pressure on hospital services, was still above 3,000 on Wednesday.
In total, 25,239 patients who are hospitalized because of the Covid, almost as many as on Saturday.
The rate of positive tests remains stable at 6.3% as the day before, according to the new calculation methods of the institution.
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