The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care decreased this Wednesday to 5,402, with 1,459 admitted in the last 24 hours, compared to 5,504 the day before.
In total, French hospitals had 27,686 patients, including 1,459 admitted since the day before.
26,000 new cases of Covid-19 were detected in the last 24 hours, according to the figures published this Wednesday, compared to 24,371 the previous day. The test positivity rate is 7.4%. Additionally, 245 people died in French hospitals in 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 79,364 in hospitals since the start of the pandemic.
On the vaccination front, 6,763,053 people have received at least one injection (which is 25% of the total population) and 7,148,514 people have received two injections (which is 10.7% of the total population) since the start of the vaccination campaign in France. In the last 24 hours, 542,811 people have been vaccinated: of these, 318,400 received their first dose and 224,411 their second.
