A first since October.
The number of Covid-19 patients in French hospitals fell below the 20,000 mark on Saturday, according to data published by Public Health France.
This encouraging announcement is coupled with a decline also observed in intensive care units, although this decline is slow.
Hospitals in France currently accommodate 19,765 Covid-19 patients, including 468 admitted in the past 24 hours.
This is the first time since October 27 that this number has fallen below 20,000. As of Friday, hospitals had 20,209 patients, 625 of whom entered in the previous 24 hours.
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In critical care services, which house the most seriously ill, there were 3,544 patients on Saturday (against 3,631 the day before), including 115 recently admitted (139 the day before).
This figure had remained around 5,900 to 6,000 during the second half of April, the peak of the third wave, before falling sharply since early May.
Rejoice ... but caution
Eighty-nine people have died from Covid-19 in hospital (111 according to data released on Friday), bringing the toll to more than 108,500 since the start of the epidemic, in early 2020.
At the same time, vaccination is progressing.
22,908,758 people received a first injection since the start of the vaccination campaign started at the very end of December and 9,690,645 received their two injections, according to the Directorate General of Health.
The government is targeting 30 million first injections by mid-June.
Hospitals in France currently accommodate 19,765 Covid-19 patients, including 468 admitted in the past 24 hours.
This is the first time since October 27 that this number has fallen below 20,000. On Friday, hospitals had 20,209 patients, including 625 entries in the previous 24 hours. Scientific experts.
