CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. The circulation of the virus continues with 155,711 new contaminations recorded in 24 hours, a slight increase of 6% in 7 days. Hospitalizations and critical care are stagnating. Latest covid figures as of April 21.
[Mis à jour le 21 avril 2022 à 10h00] The circulation of the virus of SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the global Covid pandemic continues with 155,711 new cases accounted for in 24 hours (i.e. +6.3% in 7 days). the incidence rate is down 14%. Number of new hospitalizations is relatively stable (+1.6%) as well as admissions in critical care (+1.6%) which increases very slightly. 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 Thursday April 21, 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (as of April 21) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of April 20) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of April 20) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of April 20) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28,162,002 | +155 711 | 25,179 | 1,677 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at Thursday April 21 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 28.1 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At 20 April, 155,711 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 20 April 2022 | 25,179 | +1.62% | 33.16% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At 20 april, 1,677 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| At 20 April 2022 | 1,677 | +1.64% | 33.16% |
How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France. At 20 aprilaccording to Ministry of Health, 54,307,763 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.5% of total population) and 53,401,092 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 79.2% of total population) and 40,784,115 people received a booster dose. At April 11, 73.5% of those aged 18 and over and 83.4% of those aged 65 and more had received a complete primary vaccination and a booster dose. Alone 9.2% of those aged 80 and over had received a second booster dose, recommended in this age group
79.2% 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. 144,614 to 20 April 2022. Covid deaths outside these structures are not recorded in real time. “Approximately 18,000 deaths have occurred since December 15, 2021, emphasizes the Scientific Council in its Notice 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 April 20, 2022, Covid-19 has claimed more than 6 million lives worldwide:
| WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
| CASE COVID | 504 079 039 | 211 353 859 | 41.92% |
| COVID DEAD | 6,204,155 | 1,970,684 | 31.76% |