Europe 1 with AFP
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7:04 a.m., December 29, 2021
France recorded a new record of Covid-19 contamination on Tuesday with nearly 179,807 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to data from Public Health France, after having already crossed the threshold of 100,000 cases on Christmas Day. A strong epidemic outbreak.
France recorded a new record of Covid-19 contamination on Tuesday with nearly 180,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, after having already crossed the threshold of 100,000 cases on Christmas Day. Precisely, 179,807 contaminations were recorded in 24 hours, in the middle of the fifth wave, according to data published Tuesday evening by Public Health France. On average, over the last seven days, 87,214 people have tested positive.
Saturated hospitals
The tension continues to rise in hospitals: Tuesday, 2,110 new hospitalizations were counted (against 1,634 the day before), bringing the total of beds occupied by Covid patients in France to 17,405. On the side of critical care services, 417 new hospitalizations were counted on Tuesday, against 328 the day before, for a total of 3,416 people treated in these specialized services in the most serious cases. Nearly 700,000 people also received an injection of the Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday: 46,589 first injections, and 613,757 booster doses.
In total, 51,676,653 people have had a complete vaccination schedule (76.6% of the total population) since the start of the vaccination campaign in France. And 23,059,934 people received a booster dose.