The day after a second Christmas under Covid-19, the fifth wave continues to progress despite underestimated figures due to the low number of screenings carried out on Saturday.
This Sunday, 27,697 new contaminations were recorded in 24 hours against 104,611 on Saturday and 48,473 a week ago.
At 712.2 from December 17 to 23, the incidence rate reached its highest level since the start of the pandemic and has increased by nearly 33.5% in one week.
The incidence rate in France continues to increase, to its highest level since the start of the pandemic (more than 700 now).
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- Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) December 26, 2021
A number of doctors are worried about the spread of the virus among children and ask Olivier Véran to postpone the start of the school year, scheduled for January 3, which they deem "at high risk given its proximity to the New Year's festivities. An ”.
Voltage in "sheave"
In many departments, resuscitation services are saturated, for example in Seine-et-Marne.
The number of new cases has increased by 54% in one week and is now greater than the number of places available in these services.
More generally in France, 16,365 Covid-19 patients are currently treated in hospital, while there were 16,162 on Saturday and 15,528 last Sunday.
Among these patients, Public Health France has 3,299 patients in critical care, against 3,282 on Saturday and 2,936 on Sunday, December 19.
The body also recorded 506 new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, a figure slightly up from last week when 485 new patients were identified.
96 new deaths are also to be deplored, bringing the total of deaths to at least 122,596 in France.