Pending a potential reconfinement this Thursday evening, which could concern Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France, the indicators of the epidemic continue to deteriorate.
According to data published by Public Health France (SPF), 273 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours in hospital.
This brings the number of victims registered in hospitals, nursing homes and Medico-Social Establishments and Services (ESMS) to 91,679.
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While intensive care services are saturated, especially in Île-de-France, the number of patients requiring intensive care continues to climb.
This Thursday evening, 4,246 people are hospitalized in intensive care according to SPF, against 4,219 yesterday.
They recorded 383 new entries in one day.
Explosion of the number of positive cases
More generally, the number of Covid patients in France seems to stabilize at a high level at 25,389, when they were 25,314 this Wednesday and 25,492 this Tuesday.
Small novelty in the figures published today.
For the first time, these 25,389 patients are listed in three categories: conventional hospitalization, follow-up and rehabilitation care or long-term care unit, critical care (resuscitation / intensive care / continuous monitoring).
Thus, we discover that 7,247 patients are in follow-up and long-term care.
They are more than 13,000 in conventional hospitalization.
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But when one turns to the results of the screenings, which could give an indication of the future trend in hospitals, the numbers are alarming.
Concern over the explosion in the number of new cases observed on Wednesday was confirmed on Thursday.
In 24 hours, 34,998 cases of coronavirus were confirmed.
They were 38,501 yesterday and never more than 30,303 last week.
Result: the average over the past week climbs to 27,325 cases per day.
This is the twelfth consecutive day of increase (+ 24% in one week).
On the vaccination side, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave back, this Thursday afternoon, the green light for the injection of AstraZeneca.
“We cannot exclude a link between the formation of blood clots and the vaccine,” explained Emer Cooke, director of the EMA, who however explains that the risk-benefit is largely favorable.
On the numbers side,
more than 5.6 million people (5,630,671 people to be precise) have received at least one dose of the vaccine since the beginning of the year.
Among them, there are more than 2.2 million people who received the two injections.
To date, 90% of nursing home residents have received at least one dose.
