The coronavirus epidemic continues to progress in France.
13,215 new cases have been detected in the past 24 hours, Public Health France announced this Thursday, September 17 in its daily press release.
The day before, 10,593 cases had been detected.
123 people have been declared dead from Covid-19 in France in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 31,249 victims.
A strong daily increase in mortality which is due to a hospital in Essonne (91) which transmitted this Friday nearly
"240 files concerning hospitalized patients in recent months".
“As a result, the hospital indicators for September 18, 2020 show a sudden increase in this department.
This impact is also visible at a regional and national level. ”
This catching up concerns 76 deaths, which explains the increase in the number of deaths declared this Friday, according to Public Health France.
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850 hospitalizations were recorded in just 24 hours, including 100 new admissions to intensive care.
Figures also affected by the late declarations of the Ile-de-France establishment.
947 “clusters” are under investigation, 93 of which were discovered in the last 24 hours.
92 departments are now placed at a moderate or high vulnerability level.
The positivity rate is still 5.4%.
"All indicators" are deteriorating
"
All indicators
" are deteriorating, according to Public Health France, which noted Friday "
for the first time since the lifting of confinement an increase in deaths for Covid-19
".
The indicators of the epidemic in the hospital, which started to rise again for two months, continued to deteriorate last week, with "
an increase in emergency room visits for suspected Covid-19 (+ 50%), news hospitalizations (+ 45%), as well as admissions in intensive care (+ 48%)
”, underlines the health agency in its last weekly update.
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"
The clusters that have occurred in nursing
homes
are also on the rise
", with 68 grouped outbreaks of contagion detected in these establishments last week, ie nearly double compared to the previous week (37).
"
The intensification of the spread of the virus among the oldest people raises fears of the continuation of hospitalizations and deaths in the weeks to come
", underlines Public Health France.