LATEST CORONAVIRUS FIGURES. The 7th wave of Covid is now behind us but there are still too many hospital and critical care admissions. Figures as of Thursday July 21.
[Mis à jour le 21 juillet 2022 à 10h44] The 7th Covid wave begins its decline. “The peak of the seventh wave in terms of contamination is clearly behind us, since the incidence decreases by about 21%“supported infectious disease specialist Benjamin Davido on TF1. “In contrastthe positivity rate does not decrease. This creates a contamination dynamics and maintains viral circulation” he added. As of July 20, 89,982 new people have tested positive either a drop of almost 30% in a week indicates Public Health France. Every day, Public Health France presents a dashboard key epidemic monitoring indicators: confirmed cases, death, hospitalizations, 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 figures of the covid.
What are today’s Covid figures?
Incidence rate (July 19) | Total Covid cases (as of July 21) | New cases over 24 hours (as of July 20) | Hospitalized Covid patients (July 20) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of July 20) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1126/100,000 inhabitants | 33,465,759 | +89 982 | 21,010 | 1,299 |
How many new cases today?
At July 20, 134,188 new people have tested positive. As of July 20, France lists 33.4 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 July 20 2022 | 21,010 | +7.30% | 25.68% |
How many Covid cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to rise.
| Covid patients in critical care | Evolution over the last 7 days | Occupancy rate of critical care beds by Covid patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
| As of July 20 2022 | 1,299 | +9.71% | 25.68% |
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 28.5% of 60-79 year olds and 37.1% of people aged 80 and over as well as 44.1% of eligible EHPAD residents received their second booster dose, indicates Public Health France in the epidemiological update of July 14.
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. 147,567 to July 20 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 July 20, 2022, Covid-19 has claimed more than 6 million lives worldwide:
| WORLD | EUROPE | Percentage in Europe | |
| CASE COVID | 562 672 324 | 236 794 723 | 42.08% |
| COVID DEAD | 6,367,793 | 2,039,047 | 32.02% |