While Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday afternoon the suspension for at least 24 hours of vaccination with the product AstraZeneca, the pandemic continued to progress and claim victims in the country.
Thus, according to data from Public Health France, 333 deaths linked to the coronavirus have been recorded in the hospital in the last 24 hours.
You have to go back to March 8 to see such a high figure, with 360 dead.
In total, the number of people who have lost their lives due to Covid in hospitals, nursing homes and medico-social establishments in France is 90,762. The pandemic has killed nearly 2.65 million people in the world since the start of the pandemic, according to a report established by AFP.
Objects of all the attentions these last hours, the beds of resuscitation occupied are always more numerous.
While to relieve the hospitals of Île-de-France, around a hundred evacuations are planned this week.
In France, 4,129 people are hospitalized in these intensive care units.
That's 92 more than yesterday.
Health authorities have identified 25,469 people hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection.
A figure, too, up with 24,989 patients in hospitals yesterday.
The incidence rate above 400 in Île-de-France
The number of new contaminations identified over the last 24 hours is 6,471. A figure usually lower on Monday since many analysis laboratories are closed on Sunday.
However, the average over the past week is up 13% with 24,082 new cases per day on average.
This is the ninth consecutive day of progression.
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Another point of concern, the incidence rate in Île-de-France with a “symbolic” bar exceeded on Monday.
In the capital region, this rate is now over 400 cases (404) per 100,000 inhabitants.
Sunday evening, Jean Castex in his interview on the social network Twitch, justified the containment measures in the Alpes-Maritimes and Pas-de-Calais because "in these departments the incidence rate was 400 per 100,000 inhabitants".
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On the vaccination front, slowed down on Monday, therefore, 61,520 injections were carried out (almost all of which were primary infections), or half as many as last Sunday, a great vaccine weekend in France.
In total, 5,135,616 French people received one dose and 2,223,980 were able to have two injections.
26% of those people who received at least one dose of vaccine received AstraZeneca.
This Monday evening, 89% of nursing home residents received at least one dose.