The government is trying to speed up the pace of vaccinations, while the country is struggling to compare with its neighbors.
They are thus several thousand in France to have been vaccinated this Monday, if one believes the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
The authorities want to go faster while the virus continues to circulate in the country.
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According to the latest figures released on Monday by Public Health France, some 4,022 new coronavirus contaminations have been identified in the country in the past 24 hours.
A figure difficult to interpret because of the closure of many analysis laboratories during the holidays.
As a reminder, we had 2,960 positive cases in France just a week ago.
On Sunday, health authorities announced 12,489 contaminations with the new coronavirus.
2,666 patients in intensive care
In terms of mortality, Public Health France deplores this Monday 380 new deaths recorded in hospital in the last 24 hours, against 116 on Sunday.
Since the start of the epidemic, 65,415 people have died from the disease, including 45,635 in hospital.
At the hospital, in fact, the health authorities count 1,262 new admissions for a coronavirus infection.
In total, 2,657 patients are currently being treated within these specialized services, a figure that has fallen slightly (2,665 patients on Sunday) after several days of increase.
More generally, 24,962 coronavirus patients are currently hospitalized in French establishments.
The number of hospitalized patients therefore tends to increase in the country.
They were 24,780 Sunday and 24,458 Saturday.