Hospital pressure due to Covid-19 continues to decline slowly, including in critical care wards, but it still remains high and the number of deaths still high.
French hospitals are currently welcoming 31,939 patients with Covid (-476 in 24 hours), according to Santé Publique France.
The decline also continues timidly in the critical care services which treat the most serious cases, in particular in intensive care, with 3,371 patients (-45 in 24 hours and -247 in one week).
“The epidemic killed 2,000 people” over 7 days, recalls Castex
Now largely dominant, the Omicron variant causes less severe forms of Covid, which results in shorter hospital stays and a lower risk of going to intensive care.
But deaths, up sharply since November, remain at a high level, mainly among unvaccinated and immunocompromised people: 269 people were killed by the disease in 24 hours, and 310 the day before. “Over the last seven days, the epidemic has killed 2,000 people,” Prime Minister Jean Castex noted on Friday.
In total, since the start of the epidemic just under two years ago, the Covid has killed 134,536 people.