While it will be possible to drop the mask indoors on March 14, the date of the “suspension” of the vaccine pass, according to announcements made Thursday by Prime Minister Jean Castex, the number of people positive for Covid and hospitalized continues to decrease.
Public Health France lists 23,175 infected people hospitalized this Thursday - against 23,840 on Wednesday and 26,118 last Thursday.
Among them, 2,231 are treated in critical care against 2,329 the day before and 2,656 seven days ago.
Olivier Véran announced on February 22 several thresholds to allow the suspension of the vaccine pass, in particular to return below 1,500 Covid patients in critical care.
1037 new hospital admissions were recorded on Thursday, against 1330 the day before and 1352 last week.
As for critical care services, 100 entries were recorded, against 153 on Wednesday and 150 last Thursday.
These daily critical care admissions fell by -24% in one week.
🏥 The sharp decline in all #Covid19 indicators continues 👇
• daily hospitalizations: -25% over one week
• daily critical care admissions: -24%
• hospitalized patients: -11%
• critical care patients: -16%
• daily deaths: -26%
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) March 3, 2022
The human toll of the epidemic continues to increase: there were 167 deaths in 24 hours in hospital.
Daily deaths fell -26% over a week.
Since the beginning more than two years ago, at least
138,942 victims have been identified in France.
In 24 hours, 60,225 new contaminations were identified by Public Health France against 66,732 last Thursday.
While the number of positive cases identified each day decreased by around 45% per week in mid-February, we fall this evening to just under -10%.
Will it stabilize or go down again?
• 60,225 positive cases were identified in 24 hours, compared to 66,732 last Tuesday (-9.8%, therefore).
• The average over the past week is 52,223 cases per day, down 22% over one week.
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) March 3, 2022
Note that the number of tests carried out each day also drops a little less quickly.
It will be necessary to follow, in the coming days, if the positivity rate stabilizes after having decreased significantly.