CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. The epidemic is slowing down further with 97,382 new cases recorded on Tuesday February 22, 2022 in France and an incidence rate down 40%. The number of hospitalizations fell by 11%. Positive cases, vaccination, contaminations, deaths.. Latest Covid figures in France.
[Mis à jour le 23 février 2022 à 17h46] The decline in the circulation of Sars-Cov-2 (virus responsible for the Covid epidemic) continues with 97,382 new cases in the last 24 hours. “The trend is confirmed week after week. The health horizon clears up a little more every day and the epidemic collapse continues“reassured Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson, after the Council of Ministers on Wednesday February 23, 2022. “In a week, the number of cases has further decreased by 40%. the incidence rate is now well below 1000, 845 per 100,000 inhabitants. Within a month, the incidence rate was divided by more than 4. The situation at the hospital is improving markedly and there are 400 fewer critical care patients and 3,500 hospitalized people that a week ago“detailed the government spokesperson.”This week we crossed the very important symbolic threshold since we passed below 30,000 people hospitalized for Covid and below 3,000 patients in intensive care. In just over two weeks, the number of hospital admissions has been halved“welcomed Gabriel Attal. “We have passed the hardest part but we must remain cautious because new variants could appear” for his part declared Olivier Véran before the Senate on Tuesday, February 22. “Our health system remains very exposed“, recalled the Minister of Health. He judged that the peak of the epidemic will have passed when the number of French people in intensive care will have fallen below 1,500 patients and the incidence rate oscillates between 300/500. “Those conditions could be met within two to three weeks” estimated Olivier Véran. “Two years later, we are emerging from the ‘crisis’ stage to enter a chronic phase. We will move slowly, probably in the falltowards an endemic situation, with a controlled circulation of the virus, but with occasional epidemic peaks due to the appearance of new variants. Clearly, we will live for a long time with Sars-Cov-2, but in a different way” estimated Jean-François Delfraissy at the Parisian on February 16, 2022. Every day, Santé Publique France presents a dashboard key epidemic monitoring indicators: confirmed cases, death, hospitalizationsadmissions in intensive care or critical care, contamination, vaccination figures… To which are added the data published by the government. here is the review of the latest figures, as of Wednesday, February 23 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (February 23) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of February 22) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of February 22) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of February 22) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22,563,594 | +97 382 | 27,566 | 2,842 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at 23 February 2022, according toJohns Hopkins University, 22.56 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At February 22, 97,382 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
As of February 22 2022 | 27,566 | -11.34% | 56.19% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At February 22, 2,842 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 February 22, 2022 | 2,842 | -12.15% | 56.19% |
How many French people are vaccinated against Covid?
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to continue in France with vaccines Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen. At February 22according to Ministry of Health, 54 155 559 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.3% of total population) and 53 135 434 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 78.8% of total population). 38,632,541 people have also received a booster dose. 19.3% of the French population is not vaccinated against Covid. At February 20, 94.2% of those aged 65 and over received at least one dose.
78.8% of the French population is fully vaccinated and 19.3% 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. 137,276 to February 22, 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.