A COVID 19 patient connected to a ventilator tube in the Intensive Care Unit ICU at the Centre Cardiologique du Nord private hospital in Saint-Denis, near Paris, has been hospitalized amid the coronaviruses disease epidemic in France, May 4, 2021. PARIS, Nov 30, Reuters -- France has registered about 47,000 new confirmed COVID 19 cases over the past 24 hours, Health Minister Olivier Veran told lawmakers on Tuesday, the highest one-day tally since April 8, at the height of the third wave of the pandemic.
The cumulative total of cases in France since the start of the epidemic is 7.67 million and the seven-day moving average of new infections is well over 32,000, according to the latest data.
During the third wave of the spring, the seven-day average briefly rose above 42,000. Nearly 85,000 COVID 19 infections were recorded in France on April 8.
Authorities say that the vast majority of COVID- 19 patients in hospitals have not been vaccinated. Nearly 75% of the French population is fully vaccinated.
The number of people with coronaviruses in French hospitals increased by 389 to 10,249 on Tuesday, the first time the patient tally has been above 10,000 since Sept. 12.
The number of COVID 19 patients in intensive care continued to rise and was up by 75 to 1,824, an increase of 25% in just a week.
The death toll for Tuesday will be released after 7 pm 1800 GMT On Monday, the cumulative death toll since the start of the epidemic in spring 2020 stood at over 119,000.