“We have never known this, neither with the Covid (
Editor's note: the historical strain of the virus
), nor with the English variant, nor with the South African nor with the Brazilian.
"Faced with the deputies of the National Assembly, this Tuesday, Oliver Véran sounded the alarm, announcing the figures of contaminations in 24 hours: nearly 18,000." This means that we have an increase in the circulation of the virus of the order of 150% over a week, ”the Minister of Health alarmed.
In the hospital, the pressure is dropping.
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This Tuesday, according to figures from Public Health France, 6,912 patients are hospitalized.
This is 129 less than Monday (7,041).
Seven days ago, last Tuesday, there were 7,076. The number of new admissions is however up over a week: 327 new admissions have been recorded in the last 24 hours, against 246 last Tuesday.
There had been 360 on Monday.
In critical care services (intensive care, continuous monitoring and resuscitation), we go back below the 900 patient mark, crossed on Monday (902), with 876 people.
Last Tuesday, there were 933. 61 admissions were recorded in critical care services in the last 24 hours, against 76 the day before and 37 last Tuesday.
33 new deaths have been recorded in hospitals over the past 24 hours, against 20 on Monday and 22 on Tuesday.
In total, 85,020 deaths due to Covid-19 are to be deplored in the hospital since the start of Covid-19.
Over 18,000 new cases
As Olivier Véran had said earlier in the day, the number of contaminations jumped.
Nearly 18,000 cases have been recorded over 24 hours, according to the minister.
There were 4,151 on Monday (the figures for which are disturbed by Sunday, where few tests are carried out) and 6,950 a week ago.
The bar of 10,000 new cases per day had already been exceeded on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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18,000 new cases in 24 hours: "We have never experienced this", according to Véran