LATEST CORONAVIRUS FIGURES. The 7th wave of Covid has passed: the incidence rate, hospital admissions and the number of critical care patients are down. Incidence, cases, deaths, hospitalizations, vaccination, resuscitation, statistics… Covid info as of August 5.
[Mis à jour le 5 août 2022 à 9h38] The peak of the 7th wave of Covid-19 seems to have passed. “In week 30 (25-31 July 2022), the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continued its national slowdown with a marked decrease in tat incidence (-37%) and positivity (-5.9 points). This trend was
observed in all age groups and all metropolitan areas” noted Public Health France in its last epidemiological point of August 4. “The decrease in new hospitalizations confirmed this week. Following the stabilization observed in Week 29, the number critical care admissions began to decline this week“adds the organization. August 4, 33,799 new people have tested positive, a drop of 35% in one week. 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, contaminationdigits 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 1) | Total Covid Case (as of August 5) | New cases over 24 hours (as of August 4) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of August 4) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of August 4) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 420/100,000 inhabitants | 34 206 310 | +33 799 | 19,154 | 1,151 |
How many new cases today?
At August 4, 33,799 new people have tested positive. As of August 5, France lists 34.2 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
As of August 4 2022 | 19,154 | -6.50% | 22.76% |
How many Covid cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions is on the decline.
| Covid patients in critical care | Evolution over the last 7 days | Occupancy rate of critical care beds by Covid patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
As of August 4, 2022 | 1,151 | -4.72% | 22.76% |
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). Alone 32.6% of 60-79 year olds and 43.5% of people aged 80 and over as well as 44.1% of residents in eligible EHPADs received their second booster dose, indicates Public Health France in the epidemiological update of August 4.
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. 148,916 to August 4, 2022 according to’WHO. 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 nearly 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 do the Covid maps say in France?
What is the number of Covid deaths worldwide?
Nearly 160,000 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 4, 2022, Covid-19 has claimed more than 6 million lives worldwide:
| WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
| CASE COVID | 578 142 444 | 242 148 487 | 42.07% |
| COVID DEAD | 6,405,080 | 2,053,858 | 32.04% |