While the symbolic threshold of 130,000 dead was exceeded on Thursday, according to Public Health France, infections due to the Omicron wave are down in the territory if we are to believe the latest daily report.
The organization lists this Friday 353,503 new contaminations in 24 hours, against 392,168 the day before and 400,851 a week ago.
Guest of France 2 this Friday morning, Jean-Michel Constantin, head of the intensive care unit at Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, was rather reassuring about the situation at the hospital.
“We feared the worst in the intensive care units, we did not see it”, he declared even if he still perceives “a real pressure on the medical services”.
The number of patients diagnosed with Covid-19 and hospitalized rose above 30,000 on Tuesday, for the first time since the end of April.
Slight decrease in intensive care
The figures from Public Health France concerning hospitalizations confirm Jean-Michel Constantin's analysis.
31,271 patients are hospitalized following a Covid-19 infection.
They were 30,982 on Thursday and 28,457 last Friday.
In intensive care, on the other hand, the drop observed the day before continues this Friday: 3,656 people have currently been treated there against 3,694 the day before.
Seven days ago, Public Health France counted 3,792. Finally, 321 patients diagnosed with Covid have been admitted to these services in the past 24 hours.
In addition, 264 new deaths due to Covid have been deplored in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who have died from coronavirus in France since the start of the pandemic to 130,044.