Faced with accelerating vaccination, the epidemic is still not receding.
The number of new contaminations in 24 hours reached 23,302 cases against 5,327 the day before.
A relatively low figure as usual every Monday since the laboratories close on weekends.
The situation at the hospital remains under tension: 25,201 people remain hospitalized this Tuesday, due to a Covid-19 infection, or 6 more than the day before (25,195).
They were 24,818 Sunday and 25,263 last Tuesday.
Among them, 3,918 patients suffer from a serious form of the disease which requires treatment within the intensive care unit (against 3,849 the day before and 3,586 seven days ago).
The dynamic, on this criterion alone, is therefore not favorable.
The occupancy rate of intensive care beds, it should be remembered, is one of the epidemic indicators most scrutinized by health authorities.
Nearly 4 million French people have received at least one injection
Finally, the health authorities report on Tuesday 299 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours in hospital, against 360 on Monday and 117 last week.
As for vaccinations, 3,996,329 French people received at least one dose of vaccine on March 8, including 76% from Pfizer and 19% from AstraZeneca.
1,976,264 people have been definitively vaccinated, that is to say that they have been given the two doses.
The latter represent 2.9% of the population.
A new delivery of 852,000 doses of AstraZeneca was supposed to arrive yesterday, according to the government site.
The vast majority will be delivered "Thursday and Friday" to doctors who had ordered last week, said the Ministry of Health this afternoon.