The slow decline in the number of Covid-19 hospitalized patients and those in critical care continued this Saturday, according to figures published by Santé Publique France. Currently, 10,018 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, including 322 new admissions in the last 24 hours, compared to 10,654 a week ago.
The critical care services, which treat the most severe cases, have 2,131 Covid patients, with 91 new admissions in 24 hours, compared to 2,223 last Saturday. The seven-day data, which smooths out daily variations, is also down to 3,558 hospitalizations, including 958 in critical care, compared to 4,320 and 1,035 respectively a week ago.
On the contamination front, for the second consecutive day, fewer than 10,000 new cases were recorded in 24 hours, with 9,601, compared to 13,336 last Saturday. The positivity rate, which measures the proportion of positive cases out of the total number of people tested, has decreased to 2.2%.
Covid-19 has claimed 47 lives in hospitals over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 115,488 since the start of the epidemic.
On the vaccination front, 49,620,948 people have received at least one injection (73.6% of the total population) and 46,630,044 people now have a complete vaccination scheme (69.2% of the total population), according to the DGS.
