If the braking measures are now in place throughout France, as Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday, the government has left a tolerance for travel this Easter weekend.
For now, the figures show that the progression of the epidemic is still continuing.
In its daily report, Public Health France counts 187 new deaths linked to SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals over the last 24 hours.
As of Friday, that number stood at 301. It was 194 seven days ago.
Since the start of the epidemic, 96,495 people have died from the coronavirus in France.
Difference between resuscitation and critical care
Hospital pressure, one of the main reasons for new restrictions being called for by healthcare professionals, continues to increase.
This Saturday, 28,886 people are hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection.
They were 28,729 the day before, or 1,730 additional people.
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Among them, 5,273 are in critical care.
That is to say 399 additional people in the last 24 hours.
They were 4,791 seven days ago.
This name includes patients developing a severe form and admitted to the intensive care unit, intensive care unit or continuous monitoring unit.
Here again, we will have to hold on.
Because, according to Olivier Véran, the peak of resuscitation will not be reached until the end of April.
Santé Publique France recently changed the name of this category, replacing “patients in intensive care” by “patients in critical care”.
Because, as we specified in a previous article, 3,963 of them are really taken care of in intensive care, according to the very last figures that we obtained.
The rest are in serious condition requiring extensive treatment, but are in intensive care or continuous monitoring units.
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At the same time, vaccination is progressing, even on weekends.
A total of 9,242,996 people received at least one dose and 3,111,834 received two.
In all, 218,933 people have been vaccinated in the past 24 hours in the country.
As Emmanuel Macron said during a trip at the end of March, "there are no public holidays, no weekends in this battle".
Including during the Easter weekend, therefore.