Despite the reassuring forecasts of the director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, this Monday, the Omicron variant remains very present in France.
"We are not yet at the end of the epidemic," even warned Alain Fisher, the government's "vaccine" gentleman.
France is indeed the European country with the highest incidence outside micro-states: this amounts to 3,733 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last seven days, according to an AFP count.
This Monday, Public Health France recorded 108,481 new contaminations in 24 hours.
A figure certainly lower than the 301,614 new cases the day before, but increasing over a week: 102,144 had been identified last Monday.
• Incidence rate close to 3,700 in France (week of January 15 to 21)
• Incidence rate up by 22.2% in one week
• Number of tests performed down (1.5 million per day), especially because more and more self-tests
• Positivity rate at a record level (31%) pic.twitter.com/UJ7BsIYtYu
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After a sharp increase in the number of screenings carried out during the holidays, it now peaks at 1.5 million per week.
According to the latest figures from Public Health France, the increase in hospitalizations continues in the country: the organization has 29,748 patients currently hospitalized due to Covid-19, against 28,838 on Sunday and 25,776 last week.
3,353 new admissions have been recorded in the past 24 hours, compared to 2,815 last Monday.
In addition, the number of "serious cases" seems to be stagnating: 3,776 patients are hospitalized in intensive care on Monday, against 3,760 on Sunday and 3,913 seven days ago.
337 patients have been admitted there in the past 24 hours.
In addition, 393 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours, bringing to at least 101,423 the number of people who have died of Covid-19 in hospital in France since the start of the pandemic.