CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. The epidemic is slowing down more and more with around 10,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours. Hospitalizations fell by 12% and resuscitation fell by more than 15%. Positive cases, vaccination, contaminations, deaths.. Latest covid figures as of March 1, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 1er mars 2022 à 11h35] The circulation of Sars-CoV-2 continues to decline with 13,483 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours on February 28, 2022 (very low figure like every Tuesday). The critical cases decrease by more than 15% over the last 7 days and the incidence rate is 600 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. “In week 7 (from February 14 to 20), the SARS-CoV-2 circulation indicators continued to improve, as did those for mortality linked to COVID-19, all of the indicators nevertheless remaining at a high level” indicates Public Health France in its epidemiological update of February 24, 2022. Mortality is still high with more than 1,500 deaths per week, but decreasing. “The trend is confirmed week after week. The health horizon clears up a little more every day and the epidemic collapse continues“reassured Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson, after the Council of Ministers on Wednesday February 23, 2022. Every day, Public Health France presents a dashboard key epidemic monitoring indicators: confirmed cases, death, hospitalizationsadmissions in intensive care or critical care, contaminationdigits of the vaccination… To which are added the data published by the government. here is the review of the latest figures, as of Tuesday, March 1 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (March 1) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of February 28) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of February 28) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of February 28) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22,878,605 | +13 483 | 25,079 | 2,456 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at 1st of March 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 22.9 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At February 28, 13,483 new people have tested positive during the last 24 hours.
What are the hospitalization figures?
The hospital data is based on data on emergency visits from the OSCOUR network and hospitalizations in conventional care and critical care reported by health establishments. Below are the figures released by the Dashboard government and Public Health France.
Hospitalized Covid patients | Evolution over the last 7 days | Critical care bed occupancy rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
As of February 28 2022 | 25,079 | -11.64% | 48.56% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At February 28, 2,456 Covid patients are in intensive care according to the Dashboard of the government.
| Covid patients in critical care | Evolution over the last 7 days | Occupancy rate of critical care beds by Covid patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
| As of February 28, 2022 | 2,456 | -15.46% | 48.56% |
How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France with vaccines Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. At February 28according to Ministry of Health, 54,197,330 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.4% of total population) and 53,219,766 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 78.9% of total population). 38,966,062 people have also received a booster dose. 19.3% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid. At February 22, 82.6% of those aged 65 and over had received a booster dose (90.9% among those eligible).
78.9% of the French population is fully vaccinated and 19.3% is not vaccinated (the others having a still incomplete vaccination schedule). Twice a month, the Data-gouv.fr site publishes the distribution of positive Covid cases according to the person’s vaccination. “This delay is necessary for the vaccination to be considered complete and effective (at +7 days) and for the data on the tests to be consolidated” specifies the site. These indicators reflect the number of positive RT-PCR tests per 100,000 vaccinated or unvaccinated people aged 20 and over.
How many Covid deaths in France?
Government and Public Health France sites report Covid deaths in hospitals and in social and medico-social establishments, i.e. 138,367 to February 28, 2022. Covid deaths outside these structures are not recorded in real time.
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, theInsee recorded a “exceptional mortality in 2020” with almost 669,000 deaths from all causes, i.e. 56,000 more deaths than in 2019 (+9%).
According to’INED68,000 deaths are attributable to the Covid epidemic in 2020.