The threshold of the 130,000 deaths related to COVID-19 was taken, Thursday, less than two years after the start of the pandemic. Public health France still listed nearly 400,000 new cases in twenty-four hours.
Le Monde with AFP
With 268 additional deaths in one day, the Macabre counter continues to turn: since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in France, 130 015 infected people died in the hospital, in retirement home or in d Other medico-social establishments, according to Public health figures France (SPF) published Thursday, January 27th.
At the same time, coronavirus is still broadly circulating, with 392 168 new contaminations. Over the last seven days, the daily average is more than 360,000 cases.
This propagation is due to the Omicron variant, much more contagious than its predecessors, but which leads less severe forms of the disease, which translates, in particular, by less long passages to the hospital and less frequent admissions In resuscitation.
A vaccination campaign that slows down
For several days, the number of critical care patients refluxed (3,694 Thursday, eighteen less than the day before), although hospitalizations increase. The data relating to these were not available at the beginning of the evening.
The vaccination campaign further continued its slowdown, despite the entry into force of the vaccinal pass at the beginning of the week: 53.9 million people received at least one injection (80% of the population), 52, 52, 6 million have a complete scheme (78% of the population) and 34.7 million received a recall dose.