The slight decline observed in critical care services, which receive severe Covid-19 patients, seems to be continuing.
These units had 3,852 patients on Wednesday (including 330 new admissions), compared to 3,894 on Tuesday and 3,985 seven days ago.
The total number of hospitalized patients reached 27,230, of which 3,187 were admitted in 24 hours.
The day before, 26,593 people were hospitalized, they were 23,889 last Wednesday.
The epidemic has caused the death of 232 people in 24 hours, according to data from authorities published on Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths in France since the start of the pandemic, almost two years ago, to 127,922.
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In the field of vaccination, 53,700,248 million people have received at least one injection (79.6% of the total population) and 52,371,711 million now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 77.7% of the total population ).
Some 32,753,983
million people received a booster dose.