The report of Public Health France, published this Tuesday, December 15, must state 8,693 new hospitalizations over the last seven days, including 1,159 in intensive care.
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11,532 new Covid-19 contaminations have been identified in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 2,391,447 since the start of the epidemic.
A sharp increase compared to 3063 contaminations the day before.
But we must analyze these data with caution: on Monday, the published data are still impacted downwards by the closure of analysis laboratories on weekends.
On October 29, Emmanuel Macron said that "
our long-term objective is simple: to reduce contamination very significantly, from 40,000 contaminations per day to 5,000
".
An objective that has not been reached for this first day of release from confinement.
314 people died from Covid-19 in hospital according to Public Health France.
The total toll stands at 40,653 since the start of the epidemic.
2523 clusters including 956 in Ephad are under investigation to date.
