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Covid-19: 379 new hospital deaths and 4,703 new infections

2021-03-01T20:40:49.142Z


The figures still do not show improvement in terms of health on Monday. The figures show that it will take a long time to come. This Monday, Public Health France counted 379 new deaths due to Covid-19 in the country, as well as 4,703 coronavirus contaminations. These 379 deaths have occurred in hospitals, bringing the total of deaths linked to the new coronavirus to 86,829 in France, since the start of the epidemic. At the hospital, precisely, 25,430 Covid-19 patien


The figures show that it will take a long time to come.

This Monday, Public Health France counted 379 new deaths due to Covid-19 in the country, as well as 4,703 coronavirus contaminations.

These 379 deaths have occurred in hospitals, bringing the total of deaths linked to the new coronavirus to 86,829 in France, since the start of the epidemic.

At the hospital, precisely, 25,430 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated, against 25,280 on Sunday, and 25,831 last Monday.

Of these patients, 3,544 are in intensive care, against 3,492 on Sunday, and 3,407 last Monday.

Figures which therefore remain at a high level, testifying to the pressure in certain hospitals.

AstraZeneca vaccine extended to 65-75 year olds

Santé Publique France also counts 4,703 new contaminations detected in the last 24 hours, against 19,952 on Sunday, and 4,646 last Monday.

A figure still low on the first day of the week, due to reporting deadlines on weekends.

On February 28, the health agency recorded 5,242 new vaccinations in 24 hours. 1,586,842 people received the two doses of vaccine by that date, mainly that of Pfizer / BioNTech.

2,974,019 people received at least a first dose of the vaccine.

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In terms of vaccination, the use of AstraZeneca serum will be extended to people aged 65 to 75 with comorbidities, Minister of Health Olivier Véran said on Monday evening.

"From now on", people aged "50 and over, including 65-75 years", who suffer from "what are called comorbidities, frailties", can "be vaccinated with AstraZeneca", at "their attending physician, in the hospital which follows them "or" in a few days in pharmacy ", he specified on France 2." For people who are 75 years old and more, it is always the Pfizer or the Moderna "Which will be injected" in a vaccination center, "added the minister.

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The progress of vaccination coverage is closely scrutinized, while President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday during a visit to Stains that it would still have to hold “four to six weeks” before a possible easing of measures restriction against the epidemic.

Prime Minister Jean Castex, for his part, set the date of March 6 to reassess the situation in certain territories deemed to be at risk, such as Paris, and, if necessary, apply new even more restrictive measures.

Source: leparis

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