The Ile-de-France hospitals are not far from saturation and the government has just signed the transfer of patients.
This Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron convened a Defense Council to take stock of the health situation and consider new measures.
Proof of the tension that reigns in several departments of the country, the executive announced through the voice of its spokesperson the extension of the confinement at the weekend in the Alpes-Maritimes.
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Never since November has the number of patients admitted to intensive care units been so high in the country.
The trend is confirmed this Wednesday.
The latest figures from the health authorities, made public today, however, show a stagnation in the number of patients admitted to these specialized services.
As of Tuesday, 3,918 patients suffering from severe forms of the disease are currently being treated there, against 3,637 seven days ago.
More broadly, 24,969 patients are treated in hospitals across the country for covid infection.
More than two million French people have received two doses of the vaccine
In the past 24 hours, 266 patients infected with Covid-19 have lost their lives in hospital (compared to 299 Tuesday and 326 last Wednesday).
The threshold of 90,000 deaths in the country should unfortunately be reached very quickly.
Since the start of the victim census, there have been exactly 89,565 deaths in France.
The government is trying to speed up vaccination but the number of contaminations detected in the country remains high: 30,303 new coronavirus infections have been detected in the past 24 hours, against 23,302 on Tuesday and 26,788.
As for vaccinations, 4,164,418 French people had already received at least one dose of vaccine as of March 9, including 74.8% Pfizer serum and 20.2% AstraZeneca.
2,032,791 people are definitively vaccinated, that is, they have been given both doses.
