CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. The epidemic is slowing more and more with less than 15,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours. Hit rate drops by 13% and critical healing drops by 15%. Positive cases, vaccination, hospitalizations, contaminations, mortality.. Latest covid figures as of March 8, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 8 mars 2022 à 11h14] The Sars-CoV-2 epidemic is slowing more and more with 14,496 case recorded in the last 24 hours at March 8, 2022 (very low figures like every Tuesday). The hospitalizations are down 12% for approximately 22,000 hospitalized patients, including 2,089 in critical healing (-15%). The incidence rate drops another 13%. for about 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. “According to contact tracing data, the number of new cases was decreasing. The number of new at-risk contacts per case remained low, which could be explained by the large number of people recently declared positive (less than 2 months ago) who are therefore no longer considered as contacts.“adds Santé Publique France. Every day, Santé Publique 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 8 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (as of March 8) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of March 7) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of March 7) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of March 7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23,253,877 | +14 496 | 22 208 | 2,089 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at 8 March 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 23.25 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At 7 March, 14,496 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
At 7 March 2022 | 22 208 | -11.45% | 41.30% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At March 7, 2,089 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 March 7 2022 | 2,089 | -14.94% | 41.30% |
How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France with vaccines Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. At March 7according to Ministry of Health, 54,232,719 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.4% of total population) and 53,282,720 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 79% of total population). 39 191 993 people have also received a booster dose. 19.2% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid. At March 1, 82.7% 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 19.2% 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. 139,451 to March 7, 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.