Critical care services in France continue to be in the red this Friday with 5,757 patients in total, against 5,705 on Thursday.
As the day before, 498 patients have been admitted in the last 24 hours in these departments which treat the most serious cases - resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring.
The number of people in critical care exceeded the peak of the second wave of the epidemic at the end of March (just over 4,900 patients in mid-November), approaching that of the first wave (just over 7,000 patients at the beginning of April). 2020).
More than 2,100 new hospitalizations
On the other hand, the total number of people in the hospital is decreasing with 30,326 positive coronavirus patients currently hospitalized, against 30,555 the day before.
2,120 people have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours.
The threshold of 30,000 hospitalizations was exceeded on Tuesday.
Unheard of since the peak of the second wave in November.
In 24 hours, 301 new deaths were recorded in hospitals, against 345 deaths Thursday, for a total of 98,366 since the start of the epidemic (including 72,243 in hospital).
