Contamination 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 Wednesday, September 29, 5,835 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France, a total of 7,008,228 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, 7,726 people were hospitalized, against 7,801 the day before and 11,000 at the beginning of September.
Among these patients, 1,466 are hospitalized in intensive care units reserved for the most serious cases, against 1,524 on Tuesday.
Deaths
In 24 hours, 42 people died of Covid in hospital. The total death toll stands at 116,657 dead since the start of the epidemic, including 89,822 in hospital.
The vaccination
Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 50,472,072 people had received at least one dose of vaccine (i.e. 74.9% of the total population) and 48,516,596 people have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 72% of the total population). ).
