The decline of the Covid-19 epidemic "is confirmed day after day", welcomed this Wednesday the spokesman of the government Gabriel Attal, at the exit of a Health Defense Council.
41 departments now have an incidence rate below the threshold of 50 and, at the hospital, the pressure continues to drop, according to the latest figures published by Public Health France.
As of September 22, 8,414 people were hospitalized for infection with SARS-CoV-2 or its variants.
They were 8,594 the day before and 9,555 seven days ago.
This indicator has fallen by nearly a quarter since early September.
In critical care services, which treat the most serious cases, the decline continues.
With 68 new entries in 24 hours, these units were taking care of 1,656 Covid-19 patients on Wednesday, against 1,744 Tuesday and 1,959 last week.
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France has recorded 116,310 deaths since the start of the epidemic, including 89,465 in hospital, and 59 in the last 24 hours.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 50,203,342 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 74.5 %% of the total population) and 47,897,138 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 71% of the total population). total population).
