CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. 18,853 new cases of coronavirus are recorded in 24 hours. The Pasteur Institute predicts an increase in hospital admissions in the coming days. Positive cases, incidence rate, epidemic, vaccination, hospitalizations. Latest figures as of March 15, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 15 mars 2022 à 16h35] The circulation of the coronavirus continues with 18,853 case recorded in the last 24 hours at March 14, 2022 (very low figures like every Tuesday). I‘Pastor Institute provides “an increase in hospital admissions in the coming days at the national level” can we read in the projections on the evolution of the health situation published on Monday, March 14. “These projections do not take into account the lifting of health measures, the possible impact of which on the dynamics of hospitalizations will be monitored“adds the institute. “The virus circulates a lot, it circulates more today than it circulated with the variants which preceded Omicron for example“ recalled Professor Arnaud Fontanet on France Inter Monday March 14. “The epidemic is not over“confirmed Jean-François Delfraissy on RTL the same day. “What explains today’s recovery it is the Omicron sub-variant, BA.2, which is more contagious than its predecessor and which leads to this rise in the epidemic […] and then we are in March, we are still in a period where the climate is conducive to the circulation of the virus” added epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet. “We are indeed in the fifth wave which continues, which is linked to Omicron. There is an increase, it is clear, but this one seems manageable to us” reassured the President of the Scientific Council. 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 Tuesday, March 15 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (as of March 15) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of March 14) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of March 14) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of March 14) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23,717,460 | +18 853 | 20,925 | 1,826 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at 15 March 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 23.7 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At March 14, 18,853 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 14 March 2022 | 20,925 | -5.78% | 36.10% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At March 14, 1,826 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 14 2022 | 1,826 | -12.59% | 36.10% |
How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France with vaccines Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. At March 14according to Ministry of Health, 54 256 141 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.5% of total population) and 53,322,857 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 79.1% of total population). 39,309,697 people have also received a booster dose. 19.2% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid. At March 1, 82.7% of those aged 65 and over had received a booster dose (90.9% among those eligible).
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. 140 294 to March 14, 2022. 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 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.