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Figures from Public Health France, published on Friday, show a further increase in hospitalizations and patients in critical care.
9,546 people are hospitalized this Friday due to a Covid-19 infection.
There were 9,465 Thursday (+ 81 in one day) and 8,368 seven days ago (+ 1,178).
In the last 24 hours, there have been 836 new admissions to French hospitals, against 894 Thursday and 862 last Friday.
Proof of the increase, a month ago, on July 13, there were 7,076 hospitalized patients and 246 new hospitalizations in 24 hours.
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Among hospitalized patients, there are still more in critical care units (resuscitation, continuous monitoring and intensive care), with 1,831 patients on Friday.
The increase is rapid: there were 1,807 Thursday, 1,458 last Friday and 933 a month ago.
188 new admissions have been recorded there in the last 24 hours (against 191 the day before and 165 a week ago).
74 deaths in 24 hours
86,037 people have died in total from Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic in French hospitals.
According to figures from Public Health France this Friday, 74 people have died in the past 24 hours.
Over the same period, there were 77 Thursday and 60 a week ago.
A month ago, there were 22.