More than 3,500 people with COVID-19 are currently hospitalized in critical care services, where the most serious cases are addressed, according to data published Thursday, December 30 by Public Health France. In detail, critical care services are currently dealing with 3,506 patients seriously achieved by coronavirus, including 299 new admitted over the last twenty-four hours.
These services, which include those of resuscitation, experienced a similar level of affluence at the end of March 2020 and at the beginning of November 2020 during the second wave of contamination and the end of February 2021 at the third . In total, French hospitals welcome 18,321 Covid patients including 1,922 new admitted only between Wednesday and Thursday.
From the official data, the health crisis caused 180 additional deaths to the hospital in twenty-four hours, for a total of 96,471 dead since it started last year.
France mentioned more than 206,000 new cases of coronavirus contaminations in twenty-four hours, a number close to the threshold of 200,000 cases a day reached for the first time Wednesday after nearly 180,000 cases Tuesday.
In terms of vaccination, 76.7% of French people (51 740 923 of people) are completely vaccinated and 78.4% received at least one injection (52,891,873 of people).