CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. More than 180,000 new cases of coronavirus are recorded in 24 hours. Contaminations are on the rise and the incidence rate is climbing by more than 30%. Positive cases, incidence rate, epidemic, vaccination, hospitalization, resuscitation. Figures as of March 23, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 23 mars 2022 à 16h55] The circulation of the coronavirus continues with 180,777 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours. “The countries where we observe a particular increase [du covid-19] are the United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, France, Italy and Germany“, underlined Hans Kluge, the director of the WHO in Europe on March 22 during a press conference. “The Covid returns“alert Professor Rémi Salomon, pediatrician at the Necker hospital in Paris on March 21 on RMC. “The French will have the waves [épidémiques] that they deserve” hammered Gilles Pialoux on BFM TV the same day. “The hospital pressure has stabilized. We permanently have 4-5 patients in intensive care. It has stopped decreasing and we will see how far it will go up in Springadded the head of infectious and tropical diseases at Tenon Hospital in Paris. incidence rate is up 36% at 928 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. 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 23 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (as of March 23) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of March 22) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of March 22) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of March 22) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24,528,957 | +180 777 | 20,742 | 1,604 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at 23 March 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 24.5 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At March 22, 180,777 new people tested positive during the last 24 hours.
5 million vaccinated people did not receive a 3rd booster dose
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 22 March 2022 | 20,742 | -0.85% | 31.71% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At March 22, 1,604 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 22 2022 | 1,604 | -10.04% | 31.71% |
How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France. At March 22according to Ministry of Health, 54,239,882 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.4% of total population) and 53,317,611 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 79.1% of total population) and 39,403,270 people received a booster dose. 19.2% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid. As of March 15, vaccination coverage was generally stable compared to the previous week: 83.0% of those aged 65 and over and 74.4% of those aged 80 and over had received a booster vaccine.
79.1% 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. 141 218 to March 22, 2022. Covid deaths outside these structures are not recorded in real time. “About 18,000 deaths have occurred since December 15, 2021, emphasizes the Scientific Council in its Opinion from March 11, a significant part of which is linked to Omicron variants, so-called mild variants), and this, with a certain form of trivialization and indifference.”
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.
What is the number of Covid deaths worldwide?
Nearly 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 March 22, 2022, Covid-19 has claimed more than 6 million lives worldwide:
| WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
| CASE COVID | 470 839 745 | 194,540,900 | 41% |
| COVID DEAD | 6,092,933 | 1,921,698 | 31% |