In total, 1695 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed between Tuesday and Wednesday, after having passed the bar of 1000 since the end of July.
The number of people diagnosed positive Covid-19 has increased in the past 24 hours, but the number of patients in the icu has decreased, said Wednesday the general Directorate of Health (DGS) in a press release. Total of 1695 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed between Tuesday and Wednesday, after having passed the bar of 1000 since the end of July. In addition, 19 new clusters (foci of contamination) have been identified, for a total of 294 are still active.
There were also Wednesday, 384 individuals hospitalized in intensive care, four less than on Tuesday. This figure has been seesawing for the last few days, breaking with the downward trend continuing, which had been observed since may 24. Nine new deaths were recorded since Tuesday. The death toll of the Covid in France reached Wednesday, a total of 30 305, 19 799 in hospitals and 10 506 in long-term care facilities and other institutions, social and medico-social.
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This last figure, which dates from Tuesday, will be updated on the 11th of August. The Île-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’azur, the Hauts-de-France and Guyana comprise 70% of the patients in the intensive care unit, recalls the DGS.
“We feel much of the murmuring”
on Tuesday, the scientific Board, which guides the government in the fight against the Covid-19 had been warned that France is not immune to a recovery uncontrolled epidemic, and urged the French to comply with the measures of barriers. “There is an increase in calls to the emergency room, hospitalizations, and even hospitalizations in the intensive care unit”, has confirmed Olivier Véran in an interview to South-West, posted online Wednesday night.
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The number of tests conducted, which is expected to go up to “600 000 tests weekly made this week”, may in part explain the increase of positive diagnosis, but “not only”, says the minister of Health. “The circulation of the virus increases,” he continued, “related to clusters of consecutive rallies where people relax their vigilance”.
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“It’s not the face of a wave, but it feels distinctly the murmuring and the action of each of us is crucial to minimize this evolution,” insisted the minister of Health. Returning to the “Ségur health”, a series of measures to transform the system of care, Olivier Véran is said to want to go further, with “a Ségur of public health, to be able to move forward with a comparable method, on the major issues of public health, and especially prevention.”
