The fourth epidemic wave is slowly receding. “We are on the right track,” said the Minister of Health. Daily update on the Covid epidemic in France, with figures from Public Health France and the Ministry of Health.
Contamination
This Friday, September 24, 5,879 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France, a total of 6,983,601 cases confirmed since the start of the epidemic.
The test positivity rate fell to 1.3% (compared to 2.6% at the start of September).
Hospitalizations
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in France continues to decrease. According to the daily update of the health agency Public Health France, the number of hospitalized patients on Friday stood at 8,107, against nearly 9,300 a week earlier and 11,000 at the beginning of September.
Among these patients, 1,586 are hospitalized in the intensive care units, reserved for the most serious cases, against 1,950 a week earlier and nearly 2,300 at the beginning of September.
In recent days, less than 6,000 new daily cases have been recorded on average, against 12,000 for the first week of September and more than 22,000 in early August.
Deaths
In 24 hours, 49 people died of Covid in hospital. The total death toll stands at 116,420 deaths since the start of the epidemic, including 89,605 in hospital.
The vaccination
Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 50,302,734 people have received at least one injection (ie 74.6% of the total population) and 48,110,955 people have been fully vaccinated (ie 71.4% of the total population).