CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. The epidemic is slowing more and more with less than 80,000 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 2, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 2 mars 2022 à 14h45] The circulation of Sars-CoV-2 continues to decline with 79,794 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours as of March 2, 2022. The critical cases decrease by more than 15% over the last 7 days and the incidence rate is down by more than 30%. 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 Wednesday March 2 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
Total number of Covid cases (as of March 2) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of March 1) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of March 1) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of March 1) |
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22,960,014 | +79 794 | 24,437 | 2,408 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at March 2 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 22.96 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At March 1, 79,794 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 | |
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As of March 1, 2022 | 24,437 | -11.35% | 47.61% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At 1st of March, 2,408 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 | |
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As of March 1 2022 | 2,408 | -15.27% | 47.61% |
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How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France with vaccines Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. At 1st of Marchaccording to Ministry of Health, 54 203 272 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.4% of total population) and 53,229,925 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 79% of total population). 39,010,833 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).
79% 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. 138,576 to March 1, 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.