The government therefore made the bet not to immediately reconfine the country.
At this stage, the effects of the arrival of the British variant on French soil have not really changed the epidemic trend: a high plateau, with a slow but steady increase in hospitalizations and contaminations.
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Monday's numbers are always difficult to interpret.
On weekends, laboratories close their doors, drastically reducing the number of new contaminations identified on the first day of the week.
This Monday, Public Health France announced 4,347 new contaminations, compared with the 4,240 cases recorded just seven days ago.
3218 patients in intensive care
In the past 24 hours, 456 new victims of the disease have lost their lives in French hospitals.
Last week, health authorities announced 195 new deaths.
Since the start of the epidemic, at least 76,512 people have died from Covid-19 in hospitals and nursing homes.
At the hospital, still, 27,874 patients are currently treated for an infection with the new coronavirus, against 27,613 on Sunday.
1,750 new admissions have been recorded in the last 24 hours.
Among the total number of hospitalizations, 3,218 patients suffer from a severe form of the disease which requires treatment within the intensive care unit.
They were 3,148 Sunday and 3,103 Saturday.
Furthermore, since the start of the vaccination campaign in France on December 26, 2020, 1,537,614 first injections of vaccine and 69,464 second injections have been carried out.
People currently vaccinated are among the priority audiences defined by the health authorities.
