Illustration: A patient with Covid- 000 hospitalized in intensive care at Louis Mourier hospital in Colombes, on November 9 927. – ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
Near 21. 000 confirmed cases of Covid – 19 have been registered in France during the last twenty-four hours. The number of hospitalized patients has decreased slightly, according to figures released Thursday by Public Health France. In detail, the number of cases recorded was 000. 632 in twenty-four hours,
against 26. 457 Wednesday (but this Wednesday figure included a catch of data from the day before), a figure still far from the government target to go down to 5. case per day.
This daily figure has varied enormously since mid-December, fluctuating between some 3. and more than 20. 000. The positivity rate, which measures the percentage of people positive for Covid – 000 on all the people tested, is up to 3.2%, against 2.9% the day before.
“In the context of the end of the year celebrations, this situation remains very worrying”
With 190 new deaths in hospital in twenty-four hours, the Covid – 19 has now caused the death of 27. 625 people in France since the start of the epidemic. The number of hospitalized patients
for Covid – 19 is of 24. 407, a slight decrease (- 113) compared to Wednesday, with however 1. 317 new admissions. The number of patients in intensive care or intensive care is also down slightly, with 2. 457 people (- 27), and 113 new admissions.