23,306 new contaminations have been recorded in the last 24 hours, notes Public Health France this Saturday.
A little more than 23,500 contaminations had been found over the same period on Friday and a little less than 24,000 a week ago.
24,625 people are hospitalized due to Covid-19 on Saturday in France.
That's 140 fewer people than the day before and 264 fewer than a week ago.
1097 new admissions were recorded in the last 24 hours, against 1397 the day before.
The number of people in intensive care continues to grow: 3,689 people are in intensive care units (233 people have been admitted there in the last 24 hours), or 9 more than the day before and 236 more people than there. has a week.
Acceleration of vaccination
On the death front, 173 people have died in hospital in the past 24 hours, reports Public Health France, against 239 the day before.
186 people had died in 24 hours a week ago.
In total, in France, at least 88,444 people have died from Covid-19.
Regarding vaccination, 3,581,812 doses had been injected as of March 5.
Of these, 1,902,812 are a second dose.
A figure that should jump over the weekend, with the mass vaccination operation decided by the government.
Olivier Véran announced on Twitter that at 5.30pm on Saturday, "220,000 French people were vaccinated, more than double from last Saturday".