The country has started the first phase of deconfinement since Monday.
A relaxation which is accompanied by a slow decline in hospitals.
And despite a slight upturn on Monday, the trend continues to be downward, even if the virus is still circulating a lot in France and the indicators remain very high.
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Currently, 28,427 people are hospitalized for complications related to the coronavirus.
On Monday, they were 28,950 and 30,281 seven days ago.
The trend over one week is therefore clearly on the decline.
In the past 24 hours, 1,591 new patients have been admitted to hospital.
That figure stood at 2109 on Tuesday.
Still more than 5,500 people in critical care
In critical care, which includes intensive care units, intensive care units and continuous monitoring units, there are 355 additional patients in 24 hours.
This brings the number of people in one of these departments to 5,504.
They were 5,630 the day before and 5,943 seven days ago.
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In addition, 243 people have died from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who have died since the start of the epidemic to 105,402.