Contaminations and hospitalizations continue their downward trend. Daily update on the Covid epidemic in France, with figures from Public Health France and the Ministry of Health.
Contamination
This Friday, October 1, 4,935 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France, a total of 7,018,367 cases confirmed since the start of the epidemic.
The test positivity rate fell to 1.2% (compared to 2.6% at the start of September).
Hospitalizations
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in France continues to decrease. Today, 7,410 people were hospitalized, against 7,565 the day before and 11,000 at the beginning of September.
Among these patients, 1,355 are hospitalized in the intensive care units reserved for the most serious cases, against 1,414 Thursday.
Deaths
In 24 hours, 47 people died of Covid in hospital. The total death toll stands at 116,759 deaths since the start of the epidemic, including 89,924 in hospital.
The vaccination
Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 50,558,731 people had received at least one dose of vaccine (i.e. 75% of the total population) and 48,678,630 people have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 72.1% of the total population). ).