Drop in the number of people admitted to critical care, stabilization of new contaminations, opening of a fourth dose of vaccine for the over 80s...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Saturday, March 12 on the latest information related to the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19.
Decrease in the number of people admitted to critical care
The number of people admitted to critical care over the past 24 hours due to Covid-19 fell by half on Saturday, according to data from Public Health France.
While these figures were constant around 120 daily admissions to intensive care since the start of the week (119 again on Friday), 57 people were admitted to critical care in the territory for serious forms of the disease.
Read also“It’s like a prison”: these French people forced to flee Hong Kong’s anti-Covid health madness
A total of 1,857 people were still in these services, a figure slightly down (1,875 the day before, 2,075 a week ago).
Two years after the first confinement, new hospitalizations due to the epidemic are also falling sharply, with 577 admissions listed on Saturday (1099 the day before), whereas they had accelerated since Monday.
A total of 20,860 people are still hospitalized.
Stabilization of the number of positive cases
In the past 24 hours, 52 deaths have been recorded (almost three times less than the 134 deaths the day before), while the 140,000 death mark was crossed on Friday in hospitals, retirement homes or other medico-social establishments due to infection with Covid-19, two years after the first confinement.
Particularly scrutinized two days before the lifting of many restrictions on Monday, starting with the wearing of masks, the number of new positive cases is stable over 24 hours, with 72,443 contaminations (72,399 the day before).
In recent days, however, these cases have resumed an upward trend: the average for the past seven days is more than 63,000, compared to 52,000 last Saturday.
Vaccination is stagnating, with 33,400 injections in the past 24 hours, according to figures from the Directorate General of Health.
In total, 54.25 million people have received at least one injection (80.5% of the total population), 53.32 have a complete vaccination schedule (79.1%) and 39.29 million have received a dose of reminder.
Castex announces the opening of the fourth dose of vaccine to over 80s
Jean Castex announced on Saturday the opening of the fourth dose of vaccine "
to over 80s who have received their booster dose for more than three months
", in the face of the slight rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic, in an interview with
Parisian
.
Read alsoCovid-19: Jean Castex announces the opening of the fourth dose of vaccine to those over 80
The Prime Minister also said he
strongly recommended “to people who are fragile because of their age or their pathologies to maintain the wearing of a mask in closed places and in large gatherings.
“
We will now open the fourth dose to those over 80 who have been on their booster dose for more than three months, who are facing a gradual loss of immunity
,” he said.
