COVID NUMBERS TODAY. The number of new positive covid cases in France is still increasing. 'We have seen for three weeks a resumption of the circulation of the virus' indicated the Minister of Health. Hospital and critical care admissions are also on the rise.
[Updated September 27 2022 at 10:18 a.m.] The circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continues to increase in France at the end of September. The incidence rate is up 20% and contaminations increased by 43% In a week. ' We have seen for three weeks a resumption of the circulation of the virus 'said François Braun, the Minister of Health, on Tuesday, September 27 on France info . The hospitalizations and critical care admissions are on the rise again. The variant Omicron always circulates in a way exclusive in France and its sub-lineage BA.5 rest majority . Every day, Santé Publique France presents a dashboard key epidemic monitoring indicators: confirmed cases , deaths in France and around the world , hospitalizations , statistics , incidence , admissions in intensive care or critical care, contaminations , curves, figures of the vaccination ... To which are added the data published by the government . We present here the latest Covid figures .
Covid: the beginning of the 8th wave? 'We have seen for three weeks a resumption of the circulation of the virus, admits François Braun. We are heading for a new booster dose, not for the whole population: fragile people, people over 60. pic.twitter.com/sknIoGq34n
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341/100,000 inhabitants | 35,381,526 | +7 489 | 13,354 | 733 |
A slight increase of the incidence rate is observed in week 37 (12-18 September) according to the latest curve updated by the Geodes site of Public Health France.
At September 26, 7,489 new people tested positive (very low figure like every Tuesday). In total, France identifies 35.38 million people having had a positive antigen or PCR test for the coronavirus since the start of the epidemic in 2020, according to the Johns Hopkins University .
Hospital data is based on emergency department visits from the OSCOUR network and conventional care and critical care hospitalizations reported by healthcare facilities. Below are the figures released by the Dashboard government and Public Health France.
As of September 26 2022 |
13,354 | +3.10% | 14.49% |
As of September 26, 2022 |
733 | +4.27% | 14.49% |
In France, 60% of the population received a complete primary vaccination + a booster dose. 20% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid-19 . As of September 19, only 34.2% of people aged 60-79 and 47.8% of people aged 80 and over
among those eligible received a second booster dose. 'It is essential to strengthen the vaccination effort, in view of the insufficient vaccination coverage, in particular that of the second booster dose in the elderly “ indicates Public Health France on September 19.
Government and Public Health France sites report Covid deaths in hospitals and in social and medico-social establishments, i.e. 151,324 dead to September 26, 2022 according to' WHO . Covid deaths outside these structures are not recorded in real time. the Covid-19 kills more men than women pointed out the Ined on March 2022.
More than 150,000 French people have died from Covid in France. How many globally? According to ECDC figures ( European Center for Disease Prevention and Control ) reported by Public Health France , as of September 26, 2022, Covid-19 has killed more than 6 million people worldwide:
WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
CAS-COVID | 612,236,677 | 252,588,070 | 41% |
COVID MORTS | 6,514,397 | 2,091,697 | 32% |