LATEST CORONAVIRUS FIGURES. Nearly 30,000 new cases of Covid were recorded on August 23 according to the latest figures from Public Health France. 20% of Covid tests are positive. A new wave is expected this fall.
[Mis à jour le 24 août 2022 à 15h45] The decrease of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continues with an improvement in epidemiological indicators in all regions, confirmed Public Health France in the last weekly update. the August 23, nearly 30,000 new cases of Covid were still registered and 20% of the tests are still positive. According to’WHO, France has passed the bar of 150,000 Covid deaths to August 23, 2022. And “l‘epidemic is not behind us’ has warned Brigitte Autranimmunologist at the head of the new “Health Risk Watch and Anticipation Committee” which replaces the Covid Scientific Council, in an interview with the Parisian. For her, he “is almost certain that there will be a wave (from Covid-19, editor’s note) in autumn”. The variant Omicron always circulates in a way almost exclusively in France and its sub-lineage BA.5 rest omnipresent. Every day, Public Health France presents a dashboard key epidemic monitoring indicators: confirmed cases, deaths in France and around the world, hospitalizations, statistics, impactadmissions in intensive care or critical care, contaminationcurves, figures of the vaccination… To which are added the data published by the government. We present here the latest Covid figures.
What are today’s Covid figures?
Incidence rate (August 20) | Total Covid Case (as of August 24) | New cases over 24 hours (as of August 23) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of August 19) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of August 19) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 212/100,000 inhabitants | 34,603,400 | +28988 | 16,122 | 961 |
How many new cases today?
At August 24, 28,988 new people tested positive for Covid in France. In total, France identifies 34.6 million people having had a positive antigen or PCR test for the coronavirus since the start of the epidemic in 2020, according to theJohns Hopkins University.
What are the Covid figures for hospitalizations?
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 23 August 2022 | 15,680 | -7% | 17% |
How many Covid cases in intensive care?
| Covid patients in critical care | Evolution over the last 7 days | Occupancy rate of critical care beds by Covid patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
As of August 23, 2022 | 871 | -14% | 17% |
The highest incidence rates observed in August are among 30-39 year olds, 20-29 year olds and 90 year olds and over.
What are the Covid vaccination figures in France?
In France, 60% of the population received a complete primary vaccination + a booster dose. 20% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid-19. As of August 15, only 32.5% of 60-79 year olds and 45.2% of 80 year olds and over, as well as 49.8% of nursing home residents had received their second booster dose (4th dose) among eligible people (according to the time since the last injection). “The vaccination effort must therefore be stepped up to improve the vaccination coverage which remains insufficient, in particular in the DROMs and among the elderly” Public Health France insists again on August 18.
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. 150 128 to August 23, 2022 according to’WHO. Covid deaths outside these structures are not recorded in real time. the Covid-19 kills more men than women pointed out theINED in March 2022.
What do the Covid maps say in France?
What is the number of Covid deaths worldwide?
More than 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 August 23, 2022, Covid-19 has killed more than 6 million people worldwide:
| WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
| CASE COVID | 594 367 247 | 246 426 020 | 41% |
| COVID DEAD | 6,451,016 | 2,069,981 | 32% |