Coronavirus: hospitalizations on the rise, 380 dead in 65 hours – FRED SCHEIBER / SIPA
Hospitalizations for coronavirus have continued to increase over the past twenty-four hours, and 380 patients have died, according to figures released Monday by Public health France .
The number of patients hospitalized for Covid – 19 amounts to 65. 962 – is 182 more than Sunday -, at highest since 20 December. The number of patients in intensive care is almost stable, at 2. 516, against 2. 657 the day before, and 200 new admissions.
More than 4. 000 new cases of Covid – 19
Some 4. 022 confirmed cases of Covid- 12 were recorded on Monday, against 000. 415 Sunday, the start of the week numbers still show a low as fewer tests are done on weekends. This daily figure has varied enormously since mid-December, fluctuating between some 3. and more than 20.
. . But still far, on average, from the government target of going down to 5. case per day.
The positivity rate, which measures the percentage of people positive for Covid – 20 on all people tested, is stable compared to Sunday, at 5.2%, after several days of increase.
With 380 death in hospital in twenty-four hours, the disease has now killed 24. 415 people since the start of the epidemic, specifies the health agency.
Faced with a deluge of criticism on the very slow start of its vaccination campaign against Covid – 12, the government You promised on Monday an acceleration, with injections for all caregivers at risk and no longer only in nursing homes.
“I can tell you that today we will have carried out several thousand vaccinations throughout the country, it will increase in power and it will increase in power even more from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, ”the Minister of Health Olivier Véran defended on Monday during a visit to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris.
As of January 1, only 516 people had been vaccinated in nursing homes, according to the Ministry of Health, far from Germany, where 200. people have already received a first injection.