France has once again registered a record weekly incidence rate of covid since the beginning of the pandemic. Between December 17 and 23, 712.2 infections were recorded per 100,000 inhabitants, 33.5% more than the previous week. This was reported this Sunday by the French health authorities, which also spread some infection figures down (27,697 in the last 24 hours), influenced by the holiday of December 25, when much less test usual.
In fact, the European country, which is beginning to notice the virulence of the omicron variant, had exceeded the symbolic threshold of 100,000 daily contaminations from December 24 to 25, adding 104,611. Total, France already accumulates 9 million infections by covid. The same sources also reported the death of 96 people in the last 24 hours, up to almost 122,600 deaths in total. The occupancy of ucis beds by COVID patients grew slightly to around 3,300, still far from the peak of 7,000 in April 2020.
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The vaccination, which since last Wednesday is open to children from 5 to 11 years old, reduced its daily rhythm quite a bit compared to a working day, reaching 65,999 injections, most of them reinforcement, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The 22 million people residing in France who have three injections, practically a third of the total population of the country. 78.2% of the French have at least one dose of vaccine. The French Executive prepares for this Monday the approval of a decree and its subsequent vote in the Assembly to counteract this new wave of the coronavirus.
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