30,528 people have died from the coronavirus in France since the start of the pandemic, including 15 in the last 24 hours, according to figures published daily by the Directorate General of Health. The health authority reports 1955 new cases on Monday, August 24, bringing the total over the sliding week to 23,591.
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399 patients are currently in intensive care, 43 have been admitted today, 16 more than on Sunday. 68% of patients in intensive care are grouped between Ile-de-France, the Grand Est region, Hauts-de-France and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. 233 people have been admitted to hospital over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 4690. 22 new clusters have been detected in the territory since the last official report, 498 are still active in the territory.
" The circulation of the virus is increasing strongly, more intense in young adults, " notes the DGS, indicating that the positivity rate for RT-PCR tests has gone from 1.4% at the beginning of the summer to 3 , 6% between August 15 and 21. France is the seventh country with the most deaths linked to Covid-19 in the world. Also according to the Directorate General of Health, 755,342 tests were carried out in a sliding week out of nearly 7 million carried out since the start of the epidemic.
