“The epidemic dynamic is clearly stronger than in previous waves.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, sounded the alarm this Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche.
The figures, released this Sunday, show a slight increase in hospital figures and a strong surge in contamination.
This Sunday, 6,936 patients are hospitalized due to a Covid-19 infection.
This is 14 more than Saturday (6,922) and 247 less than a week ago (7,183).
In the last 24 hours, 54 new admissions have been recorded (against 114 on Saturday and 23 last Sunday).
In critical care services (continuous monitoring, resuscitation and intensive care), 9 new admissions have been recorded in the last 24 hours (21 Saturday, 4 last Sunday).
In all, this Sunday, 891 patients are hospitalized in critical care, against 890 Saturday and 947 seven days ago.
Five new deaths in hospital are to be deplored in the past 24 hours.
There were 16 and 4 over the same period last Saturday and Sunday.
More than 12,500 new contaminations
Contaminations, they continue to be on the rise.
Public Health France has reported 12,532 new cases in the last 24 hours.
An increase compared to Saturday (10,949) and compared to last Sunday (4,256).
Friday, the threshold of 10,000 cases had been crossed for the first time since May.
An increase in the number of cases along with the increase in the number of tests: nearly 350,000 tests are carried out every day, on average over the past week, against 250,000 at the end of June.
Faced with Covid-19, vaccination continues.
252,607 injections have been carried out in the last 24 hours, notes the Directorate General of Health this Sunday afternoon.
37,544,220 French people have received at least one dose of vaccine (55.7% of the population) and 30,339,179 people are fully vaccinated (45% of the population).