France is still on borrowed time from the Covid-19 epidemic.
The number of hospitalized patients saw a slight increase on Monday: according to Public Health France, 26,522 people were hospitalized in France, against 26,401 on Sunday.
Of this total, 3,381 patients developed a severe form of the disease requiring treatment in intensive care units.
More than the 3,299 serious cases identified on Sunday.
The health agency also recorded 4,376 new cases in 24 hours, against 16,546 this Sunday, February 14.
Be careful, as usual, the figures for Monday are often lower than the rest of the week because of the plots of land over the weekend.
Friday, the number of patients in intensive care had fallen for the first time in five days below the 3,300 mark. During previous waves, they had been up to 7,000 in the spring, 4,900 in the fall.
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The health authorities also list 412 deaths linked to Covid-19 which have occurred in the hospital in the past 24 hours.
In total, 82,226 people have died of this disease in France since the appearance of the new coronavirus in our territory.
In addition, France has passed the milestone of three million vaccinations.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in the country, 2,294,208 first injections of vaccine (ie 3.5% of the total population and 4.3% of the adult population) and 720,249 second injections have been carried out.