2022 begins on the hats of wheels. Saturday 1er January, Public Health France announced, 219,126 new cases of Covid-19 were detected, continuing the viral wave that began earlier this week. For the past week, nearly a million new cases have been detected in France, with a historic peak of 232,000 cases on Friday, December 31. The slight drop on Saturday is also, in all likelihood, largely attributable to the closure of a number of screening centers.
The positivity rate of the tests, logically, therefore continues to increase, and reaches 13.86%. As for the incidence rate, it was 1,332.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on December 29, according to data consolidated on D + 3 from Public Health France. Seven days ago, remember West France, this incidence rate did not exceed 647.
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18,000 people hospitalized
At the local level, Île-de-France still holds the upper hand to the rest of its competitors: in all of its seven departments, Public Health France reported, the incidence rate exceeds 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In Paris and in Essonne, it would even reach more than 2,500! So far, 18,811 patients are hospitalized, including 3,560 in critical care. Finally, 111 people died on Saturday.
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