About twenty departments in France are still under increased surveillance due to the high incidence rate related to Covid-19. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, recently announced that people over 65 years old will have the opportunity to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Here is the Covid update…
Good news in the vaccination campaign, France has just surpassed the milestone of three million vaccinated people.
In France
In the last 24 hours, health authorities have recorded 22,857 new cases and 301 deaths. The total has now risen to 3,783,528 confirmed cases and 87,246 deaths (including 62,273 in hospitals) since the beginning of the health crisis in France.
The test positivity rate is 7.3%. With the new vaccinated individuals, France currently has 3,036,605 people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine. 83.3% of residents have received a dose as well.
In hospitals, there have been 9,401 new hospitalizations and 1,965 admissions to intensive care units over the past seven days.
In the PACA region
In the PACA region, 1,557 people are hospitalized (-6), 468 are in intensive care (-12), and 5,781 people have died from Covid-19 in hospitals (+41).
As of February 27, 236,407 people have received at least a first dose of the vaccine, an increase of 341, and 126,037 people have received both doses.
In the Alpes-Maritimes area, there are 371 conventional hospitalizations (+17), 114 in intensive care (-5), 204 patients in follow-up and rehabilitation care (-6), and a total of 1,076 hospital deaths (+12).
From February 15 to 21, the test positivity rate was 7.6% (compared to 7.7% the previous day). Last week, this rate increased, reaching 8.1%. Throughout the departments of the PACA region, the positivity rate changed, except in the Alpes-Maritimes, where it remains at 10.1%.
The incidence rate in the region is 360 (compared to 369 the previous day). Between February 15 and 28, the rate in the Alpes-Maritimes decreased from 603 to 561 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Following the decision of the Alpes-Maritimes prefect, Bernard Gonzalez, to implement partial weekend confinement throughout the department to combat the coronavirus pandemic, 241 people have expressed their disagreement in court and are demanding the suspension of the prefect’s order concerning the local curfew in the 63 municipalities between Menton and Théoule-sur-Mer. The administrative court in the city of Nice will deliver its verdict this Wednesday.
