While the government has acted on the shift to a fourth wave of coronavirus, in the context of a push for the Delta variant, here is the daily update on the epidemic in France, with figures from France’s Public Health and the Ministry of Health. . .
This Thursday, August 12, 28,554 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France, a total of 6,398,983 confirmed cases since the beginning of the epidemic.
The positivity rate, which measures the number of positive cases compared to the number of people tested, is 4.1%.
The number of Covid patients in the hospital is now 9,465 patients against 9,233 the day before.
Among these patients, 1,807 patients are treated in intensive care services (including 117 admissions in 24 hours) compared to 1,745 patients on Wednesday.
77 people have succumbed to Covid-19 in hospitals in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of this epidemic in France to 112,533 deaths, including 85,992 in the hospital.
As of Tuesday, 45,587,880 people had received at least one injection, or nearly 68% of the total population, and 38,474,940 people had a full vaccination schedule, or nearly 57.1% of the total population. 68.2% of the adult population is fully vaccinated.