While Eastern Europe is in the grip of a clear deterioration in the health situation, France, until then relatively spared, is also beginning to show signs of an epidemic resumption.
Across the country, “5,276 cases were diagnosed per day” on average last week (that of October 18) against 4,713 the previous week, according to the latest weekly report from Public Health France.
Data all the more worrying as "the winter period will be conducive to a worsening of the situation", underlined Thursday Minister Brigitte Bourguignon in the Senate.
This Friday, 6,534 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized in the country against 6,541 Thursday and 6,400 last Friday, according to the new daily report from Public Health France.
Of these patients, 283 were admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours.
The number of seriously ill people is up slightly: with 67 new entries in critical care services, 1,034 people are being cared for this Friday in these units reserved for the most severe cases.
They were 1037 the day before and 1010 seven days ago.
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In the past 24 hours, the death of 27 new people infected with Covid-19 is to be deplored, a new figure which brings the number of people who have died since the start of the epidemic in France to 117,617.
The incidence rate for all ages in France continued to increase at a more or less constant rate: 56.5, versus 49.6 a week earlier.
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The incidence rate for all ages in France continues to increase.
It stands at 56.5 against 55.9 on Thursday and 48.7 a week earlier.
This is equivalent to an increase of 13.9% in one week, but this data should be put into perspective, the number of tests carried out having clearly decreased since the end of the free PCR and antigenic tests known as "of comfort", last October 15th. .