While the reconfinement of 21 million French people began on Friday midnight, in Île-de-France as well as in Hauts-de-France, the pressure on the intensive care services remains.
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According to the latest epidemic figures published on Saturday, the number of patients suffering from severe forms of the disease has further increased, now to 4,353 patients, against 4,287 the day before and 4,070 a week ago.
But new admissions on the other hand fell to 317, from 382 48 hours ago.
Concerning Île-de-France, one of the regions most affected by this third wave, 1,261 patients are now hospitalized in intensive care, or 11% more than at the peak of the second wave.
On average, 115 patients are admitted to this service each day in the region.
Only hospital data are updated by territory this evening.
1,261 patients are now hospitalized in intensive care in Île-de-France, or 11% more than at the peak of the "second wave".
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In France, the number of hospitalizations fell slightly on Saturday, with 1,348 new admissions to the hospital over the last 24 hours against 1,699 on Friday.
In all, the authorities have identified 25,537 people hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection.
185 new deaths in 24 hours
There is a slight decline in the number of deaths, since we deplore the death of 185 people in the last 24 hours in hospital, against 297 the day before.
As a reminder, since the start of the epidemic, 66,735 patients have died in hospital from a Covid-19 infection.
Faced with the epidemic, the vaccination campaign continues.
More than 6 million (6,137,375 precisely) doses of the anti-Covid vaccine have been injected into the arms of the French, or 9.2% of the total population, since the start of the vaccination campaign, according to figures released on Saturday .
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177,152 first doses and 13,079 second doses were injected on Saturday alone.
A total of 2,444,473 people received the two doses needed for definitive vaccination with the vaccines currently in use.
This corresponds to 3.6% of the total population.