Covid-19 in France: 140 new deaths in 24 hours, nearly 5,900 patients in critical care

In France, if the indicators “stabilize”, as the government assures us, they remain at a still high level.

Hospital pressure is still being felt, with a slight increase in admissions this Sunday: Public Health France has 30,789 patients with the coronavirus currently being treated, against 30,329 on Saturday.

As for serious cases, 5,893 patients are currently in critical care (resuscitation, intensive care, continuous monitoring), against 5,877 on Saturday.

233 patients have been admitted there in the last 24 hours.

They were 359 the day before, a number almost stable for six days.

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This Sunday, Public Health France also lists 140 new deaths linked to Covid-19 in hospitals, against 189 yesterday.

As a reminder, in France, the number of victims who have died since the start of the pandemic crossed the threshold of 100,000 deaths on Thursday.

More than 12.5 million people have received a dose

While the vaccination campaign is accelerating, Public Health France counts on April 17, 12,508,863 people who have received at least one injection (i.e. 18% of the total population and 23% of the adult population) and 4,505,662 people who have received at least one injection. received two injections.

As of April 17, more than 12.5 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

4.5 million of them received two doses.

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- Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) April 18, 2021

The Minister of Health Olivier Véran had noted in recent days that the government was preparing for the hypothesis of a third dose in particular in the event of new mutations in the virus. For the Pfizer / BioNTech RNA vaccine, a third dose, in addition to the two planned, will "probably" be necessary, then probably an injection each year, said the boss of the American pharmaceutical giant, Albert Bourla.