LATEST CORONAVIRUS FIGURES. About 14,000 new cases of Covid were recorded on August 28 according to the latest figures from Public Health France. The incidence rate drops below 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
[Mis à jour le 29 août 2022 à 10h50] The decrease of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continues in France. At August 26, 14,110 new people have tested positive for Covid, i.e. a 5% drop in 7 days. the incidence rate drops below 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, down 15%. According to’WHO, France has passed the bar of 150,000 Covid deaths. 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 22) | Total Covid cases (as of August 29) | New cases over 24 hours (as of August 28) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of August 26) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of August 26) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 185/100,000 inhabitants | 34,662,834 | +14 110 | 15,412 | 845 |
How many new cases today?
At August 26, 14,110 new people tested positive for Covid in France. In total, France identifies 34.66 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 26 August 2022 | 15,234 | -5.51% | 16.71% |
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 26, 2022 | 845 | -12.07% | 16.71% |
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 22, only 32.6% of those aged 60-79 and 45.7% of those aged 80 and over had received their second booster dose among eligible people (according to the time since their last injection). “The vaccination effort must therefore be increased 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. 150,311 as of August 26, 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 26, 2022, Covid-19 has killed more than 6 million people worldwide:
| WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
| CASE COVID | 596 873 121 | 247 138 114 | 41% |
| COVID DEAD | 6,459,684 | 2,073,361 | 32% |