CONTAMINATION COVID FRANCE. In this return to school in September, the Covid epidemic is still on the decline in France. Statistics, cases, hospitalizations, vaccination, incidence, deaths... Covid report.
[Updated September 1 2022 at 11:43 am] The diminution of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continues in France. At August 31, 19,240 new people tested positive for Covid be one 9.6% drop In a week. the incidence rate is still below 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, down almost 15% over 7 days. The number of admissions to hospital and critical care also continues to decline. ' Since the end of 2020, we have witnessed s successive waves with a certain regularity [...] because the virus continues to circulate around the world, which promotes the emergence of new variants ' said Dr. Damien Mascret on France 3 August 31. He also recalled that a eighth wave of covid was very likely. The variant Omicron always circulates in a way almost exclusively in France and its sub-lineage BA.5 rest omnipresent . 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 .
181/100,000 inhabitants | 34,745,833 | +19 240 | 14,485 | 838 |
At August 31, 19,240 new people have tested positive for Covid in France. In total, France identifies 34.74 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.
At 31 August 2022 |
14,485 | -6.85% | 16.57% |
As of August 31, 2022 |
838 | -1.76% | 16.57% |
The highest incidence rates observed in August are among 30-39 year olds, 20-29 year olds and 90+ year olds.
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 August 22, only 32.6% of those aged 60-79 and 45.7% of those aged 80 and over had received their second booster dose among those eligible (by time since their last injection). 'The vaccination effort must therefore be increased to improve the vaccination coverage which remains insufficient, in particular in the DROMs and among the elderly' Public Health France insists again on August 18.
Government and Public Health France sites report Covid deaths in hospitals and in social and medico-social establishments, i.e. 150,523 as of August 31, 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 August 31, 2022, Covid-19 has caused more than 6 million deaths worldwide:
WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
CAS-COVID | 599,825,400 | 247,914,177 | 41% |
COVID MORTS | 6,469,458 | 2,076,213 | 32% |