Number of French COVID-19 ICU patients falls, despite record infections
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 09:24 | 14 January 2022
- Modified Date: 09:24 | 14 January 2022
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units in France has fallen for the second day in a row, despite a record infection rate, health ministry data showed on Friday.
France reported 3,895 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units on Friday, 44 fewer than Thursday, and the second consecutive fall, despite the seven-day moving average of new infections reaching a new high of nearly 294,000 on Thursday.
The number of people in hospitals with COVID-19 rose by 357 to 24,511, but the week-on-week increase of 13.5% was the lowest since the start of the year.
France's Institut Pasteur said on Wednesday that it expected to see a peak of new Omicron variant coronavirus infections in mid-January, followed by a peak in hospital admissions in the second half of January.
France on Friday also reported 191 new deaths from COVID-19, taking the cumulative total to 126,721.
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