In total, French hospitals welcome 18,715 Covid patients, including 1,928 new admissions in 24 hours. Critical care services, including resuscitation, take care of 3,543 patients, against 3,506 the day before, suffering from the most serious forms of the disease. In 24 hours, 189 people succumbed to the coronavirus.
The number of hospitalizations linked to Covid-19 continues to increase, with more than 3,500 patients in critical care who are treating the most serious cases, according to figures released Friday by Public Health France. In total, French hospitals welcome 18,715 Covid patients, including 1,928 new admissions in 24 hours. Critical care services, including resuscitation, take care of 3,543 patients (3,306 the day before) suffering from the most serious forms of the disease. And counted 320 new admissions between Thursday and Friday. In 24 hours, 189 people have succumbed to Covid, bringing the total death toll to 123,741 since the start of the epidemic.
232,200 cases registered on Friday
The virus continues to gallop, pushed by the Omicron variant, particularly contagious and now the majority in France (62.4% of the tests screened). On Wednesday, the country thus crossed for the first time the threshold of 200,000 contaminations in 24 hours. As of Friday, 232,200 cases have been recorded. Faced with this “tidal wave”, the government announced new health restriction measures such as the compulsory recourse to teleworking in the companies concerned or the return of gauges for public events. It is still unclear to what extent this explosion of contaminations will result in serious, potentially fatal forms, overwhelming hospitals and forcing more drastic restrictions.
76.8% of French people are fully vaccinated
On Friday by presenting his wishes for 2022, President Emmanuel Macron announced “difficult weeks” but “real reasons to hope thanks to the vaccine”. Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 76.8% of French people have been fully vaccinated (i.e. 51,756,570 people), and 78.5% have received at least one injection (52,914,262 people).