Hospital pressure continues to drop.
Public Health France has identified 21,899 hospitalized Covid-19 positive patients.
The health watch institute had 22,208 the day before and 24,437 last Tuesday.
The number of hospitalized patients fell by -10% over one week.
Among them 2,036 more affected patients are in critical care on Monday.
They were 2,089 on Monday and 2,408 seven days ago.
🏥 Evolution, over a week, of #Covid19 hospital indicators 👇
• daily hospitalizations: -15%
• daily critical care admissions: -24%
• hospitalized patients: -10%
• critical care patients: -15%
• daily deaths: -24%
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) March 8, 2022
173 new deaths raise the death toll to more than 139,410 since the start of the epidemic in France.
Daily deaths decreased by 24% in one week.
While this weekend, the contaminations were higher than those of the previous weekend, the incidence rate and the positivity rate are both up slightly, starting from fairly high levels.
The rate of vaccination has dropped, averaging 40,000 doses every day over 7 days as of March 6.
Just over 40,000 doses of vaccine are administered each day (on average), the lowest since the very beginning of the vaccination campaign.
#Covid19
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) March 8, 2022