CORONAVIRUS FIGURES OF THE DAY. The epidemic is slowing more and more with less than 60,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours. “The fall of the epidemic continues” confirmed Gabriel Attal. Positive cases, vaccination, hospitalizations, contaminations, deaths.. Latest covid figures as of March 3, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 3 mars 2022 à 10h18] 57,697 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 were recorded in the last 24 hours as of March 3, 2022.”We shared a positive observation. The fall of the epidemic continues. Today we have a third less cases in a week, 3,300 people hospitalized and 500 patients in critical care less than a week ago. All the signals agree. We are coming out of the acute phase of the epidemic“ declared Gabriel Attal during the Council of Ministers on Wednesday March 2. “We have just lifted the state of health emergency in Guyana and Mayotte“adds the government spokesperson. Hospitalizations are down 11% and the incidence rate maintains its 30% drop to less than 600 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. 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 Thursday March 3 2022.
What are today’s Covid figures?
| Total number of Covid cases (as of March 3) | New Covid cases over 24 hours (as of March 2) | Hospitalized Covid patients (as of March 2) | Covid patients in intensive care or critical care (as of March 2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23,018,397 | +57 697 | 23,840 | 2,329 |
How many Covid cases today?
In France, at 3rd of March 2022according to’Johns Hopkins University, 23 million people have had a positive coronavirus antigen or PCR test since the outbreak began in 2020. At March 2, 57,697 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 March 2, 2022 | 23,840 | -11.31% | 46.05% |
How many cases in intensive care?
The number of new hospitalizations and critical care admissions continues to decline. At March 2, 2,329 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 2 2022 | 2,329 | -15.40% | 46.05% |
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 2according to Ministry of Health, 54 211 597 people received at least one injection (i.e. 80.4% of total population) and 53,246,081 people now have a full immunization schedule (i.e. 79% of total population). 39,062,851 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% 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. 138,762 to March 2, 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.