As the country has surpassed the threshold of 80,000 deaths due to Covid-19, a new health defense council took place this Wednesday morning. The idea of another lockdown remains dismissed by the government, and the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, calls for the utmost vigilance regarding the spread of variants such as the British one. Here is the Covid update…
25,387 new cases and 297 deaths have been recorded in France over the last 24 hours, according to information provided by the Public Health Agency of France. These figures add to the total count, which is now 3,385,622 confirmed cases and 80,443 deaths, including 56,772 in hospitals.
27,461 people are hospitalized, 3,319 are in intensive care, and the positivity rate remains at 6.3%. There have been 1,525 new hospital admissions and 282 new admissions to intensive care.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 2,056,572 first vaccine doses (representing 3.1% of the total population and 3.9% of the adult population) and 443,148 second doses have been administered (provisional data pending consolidation).
In the PACA region
In the PACA region, 1,750 people are hospitalized (+27), 438 people are in intensive care (-13), and 5,009 people have died from Covid-19 in hospitals since the start of the crisis (+31).
To date, 156,983 people have received a first dose of the vaccine throughout the region. 19,694 have received both doses.
In the Alpes-Maritimes, there are 341 conventional hospitalizations (-7), 95 people in intensive care, 258 patients in aftercare and rehabilitation (+1), and 911 deaths in hospitals since the start of the pandemic (+6). The department remains the second most affected in terms of deaths, behind Bouches-du-Rhône (2,361 deaths).
