The total number of hospitalized patients reached 30,578 against 31,091 on Tuesday and 32,878 people last Wednesday. The number of new admissions (1,975) is also down compared to the previous day (2,454), or compared to that of Wednesday of the previous week (2,614).
The critical care services, which receive the most serious cases, had 3,126 Covid patients on Wednesday (including 207 admissions), against 3,235 the day before (291 admissions) and 3,503 the previous Wednesday. A figure that also continues to decline slowly.
Large drop in contamination
On Wednesday, 98,735 people tested positive in the past 24 hours, according to data published by Public Health France. This brings the average over the past seven days to 108,148 daily cases, compared to 192,323 the previous Wednesday. This calculation helps to smooth out the deviations observed from one day to the next, often artificially created by data collection problems.
Since the outbreak began just under two years ago, 135,855 people have died. 244 people died in hospital with a Covid diagnosis according to figures released Wednesday evening, compared to 304 on Tuesday.
Nearly 54.2 million people have now received at least one injection (80.4% of the total population) and 53.1 million are fully vaccinated (78.8% of the population). 38.2 million people received a booster dose.