On the one hand, a government announcing the end of the tunnel with a prospect of reopening for the next few weeks, after four confinements.
On the other, an epidemic which remains present in France.
"We could be at or near the peak," government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday.
New figures from Public Health France show a stabilization of hospitalizations and patients in critical care, despite a still high number of contaminations.
Indeed, 30,634 patients are currently hospitalized in French hospitals due to Covid-19 (against 30,954 on Wednesday).
The decline continues (we had passed the bar of 31,000 people in recent days) but it remains fragile: 30,668 people were hospitalized only seven days ago.
In the last 24 hours, 1,878 new admissions have been recorded (2,095 Wednesday).
5981 patients are in critical care (resuscitation, intensive care, continuous monitoring).
We are still on a high plateau, beyond the second wave.
As of Wednesday, there were 5,959 patients.
There were 5,924 seven days ago.
In the past 24 hours, 478 new patients have been admitted to critical care (476 Wednesday).
Vaccination continues
Over the past 24 hours, 285 additional deaths have been deplored in French hospitals.
There had been 316, over the same period, Wednesday, and 297 a week ago.
Have we actually passed the epidemic peak?
34,318 new cases of contamination have been identified in the past 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France (against 34,968 on Wednesday and 38,045 seven days ago).
Against Covid-19, the vaccination campaign continues.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 13,526,306 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 20.2% of the total population and 25.8% of the adult population) and 5,200,790 people have received two injections. (7.8% of the total population and 9.9% of the adult population), explains the Directorate General of Health.
