COVID NUMBERS TODAY. A slight decrease in the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 has started in France, confirms Santé Publique France. Hospital and critical care admissions are still increasing.
[Updated October 19 2022 à 9h57] The Covid circulation continues in France. At 18 October, 87,666 new people tested positive, a drop of 7% in one week. Hospitalizations and admissions in critical care continues to increase. 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 , dead 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 .
575/100,000 inhabitants | 36,573,007 | +87 666 | 19,948 | 1,069 |
A rise of the incidence rate is still observed in week 40 (3-9 October) according to the latest curve updated by the Geodes site of Public Health France.
At 18 October, 87,666 new people tested positive. In total, France identifies 36.5 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 October 18 2022 |
19,948 | +11.40% | 21.13% |
As of October 18, 2022 |
1,069 | +13.24% | 21.13% |
In France, 60% of the population received a complete primary vaccination + one dose of abseiling . 20% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid-19 . As of October 11, only 35.9% of people aged 60-79 and 49.3% of people aged 80 and over
among those eligible received a second booster dose. “Given the epidemic dynamics and the insufficient vaccination coverage, it is essential to strengthen the vaccination effort, especially for the second booster dose in the elderly. “indicates Public Health France.
Government and Public Health France sites report the Covid death in hospitals and in social and medico-social establishments, 152,398 dead to October 18, 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 October 17, 2022, Covid-19 has killed more than 6 million people worldwide:
WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
COVID MORTS | 621,797,133 | 258,122,220 | 32% |
CAS-COVID | 6,545,561 | 2,104,750 | 41% |