France again exceeded, on Thursday, the threshold of 200,000 new Covid-19 contaminations in 24 hours for the second consecutive day, while the country suffered a 5th dazzling epidemic wave and a strong spread of the Omicron variant, on the way to becoming majority in the coming days, according to data from the French public health agency.
Health authorities have recorded 206,243 new cases in the past 24 hours, against 208,000 the day before and 179,807 on Tuesday, with an average incidence rate never reached of nearly 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at the national level.
This Thursday, 18,321 Covid-19 patients are treated in hospital, while there were 17,856 the day before, and 16,060 last Thursday.
Among these patients, Public Health France reports 3,506 patients in critical care, against 3,469 the day before.
In addition, 180 people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 96,471 since the start of the pandemic.
To deal with this situation described as a “tidal wave” by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, and with a view to preventing it from resulting in an excessive influx of patients to the hospital, several prefectures have restored wearing a mask outdoors, including the capital Paris, and limiting the festivities for December 31, in addition to the measures decided on a national scale by the government.
However, the executive is placing particular emphasis on vaccination to resist the current epidemic outbreak and intends to transform the health pass into a vaccination pass from January 15.
In the country, 52,891,873 people have received at least one injection, or 78.4% of the total population, while 51,740,923 people now have a complete vaccination schedule, or 76.7% of the total population and 24,119. 798 have received a booster dose since the start of the vaccination campaign, according to the results of the General Directorate of Health.
With MAP
