France reached this Friday the threshold of 150,000 deaths linked to the coronavirus since the start of the epidemic in 2020, according to figures from Public Health France. The bar was crossed after the death of 74 people who died in hospital as a result of the disease in the last 24 hours. The 140,000 mark was crossed on March 11, two years after the start of the pandemic in France.
France is in its seventh wave of the epidemic, which started at the end of May, pushed by subvariants of Omicron. It is reflected in a sharp increase in contamination, while the circulation of the virus continues to intensify on the territory and the date of the epidemic peak remains uncertain. Thursday evening there were more than 160,000 cases, with 17,719 hospitalized patients, including 1,523 new admissions.
According to the latest projections published by the Institut Pasteur, hospitalizations linked to Covid will rise further in the coming days, the researchers expecting some 1,700 daily hospital admissions by July 18, against around a thousand these days.