Following a meeting between Prime Minister Jean Castex and stakeholders in the mountain sector, ski resort lifts will remain closed in February, with no reopening date set, Matignon announced on Monday. Here is the Covid update…
Prime Minister Jean Castex stated that “the evolution of the health situation does not allow us at this stage to reopen the ski lifts”, while reminding that there was “no trend towards a general reopening” in other European countries.
This Monday, the number of hospitalizations and ICU admissions related to Covid-19 continues to rise, according to the latest figures from the French Public Health Agency. There were 27,874 virus patients hospitalized, an increase of 301 compared to the previous day, with 1,750 new admissions in the last 24 hours.
4,347 new cases of infections were reported by health authorities, and 456 deaths were recorded, bringing the total to 3,201,461 cases and 76,512 deaths in hospitals and nursing homes since the beginning of the epidemic in France. The test positivity rate was 6.7%, a very slight decrease from the previous day (6.8%).
3,218 patients are in intensive care or post-care rehabilitation, with 318 new admissions in the last 24 hours. 11,093 new hospitalizations have been recorded over the past seven days.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France on December 26, 2020, 1,537,614 first doses of the vaccine, and 69,464 second doses have been administered. The Government is continuing its efforts to combat the epidemic by further strengthening sanitary measures (flights outside the EU banned except for “compelling” reasons, closure of non-food shopping centers with a surface area greater than 20,000 m2, etc.) rather than opting for a third national lockdown.
In the PACA Region
In the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur (PACA) region, 1,628 people are hospitalized (+63), 416 are in intensive care (+14), and 4,614 people have died in hospitals since the onset of the health crisis (+127).
In the Alpes-Maritimes
Among the Covid figures in the PACA region, 380 standard hospitalizations have been recorded by the authorities (+17). 88 people are in intensive care (+2), 249 are in post-care rehabilitation, and 822 deaths in hospitals have been recorded since the start of the crisis (+20).
The positivity rate remains the highest in the region at 9.1% (8.3% in the PACA region).
