According to a new report published by the Directorate General of Health, this Tuesday May 19 in the evening, France recorded 28,022 deaths related to coronavirus, since March 1st. A total lower than that announced on Monday (28,239 dead). A differentiation of 217 deaths which results from adjustments in the reporting of data from regional health agencies
, specified the general direction of health in a press release. In 24 hours, 125 patients lost their lives in the hospital.
In detail, 17,714 people died in hospital and 10,308 died in social and medico-social establishments. Currently about 18,468 people were still hospitalized on Tuesday because of the Covid-19, against 19,015 on Monday, and nearly 100,000 have been since the start of the epidemic, said in his press briefing, Jérôme Salomon.
The number of people hospitalized because of their contamination continues to decline, especially in intensive care units, which currently treat 1,894 serious cases, 104 less than Monday.
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The number of cases confirmed at Covid-19 stands at 143,427 since March 1 in France.
Find on our map the detail by department of hospital activity related to the coronavirus, the number of patients hospitalized, the current number in intensive care, the number of patients returned to their home, and the number of deaths.
The size of the points varies according to the number of deaths recorded in the department:
New epidemic foci identified
This Tuesday evening, the Regional Health Agency and the prefecture of the Grand Est region confirmed the identification of eight new homes in the Grand Est. One cluster has been identified in Haute-Marne, four in Moselle, two in Bas-Rhin and one in Meuse, Marie-Ange Desailly-Chanson, director general of ARS du Grand Est, reported on Tuesday evening at a press conference.
At the same time, three foci of contamination were identified in Île-de-France by the regional agency of Ile-de-France Health. In Hauts-de-France, the health organization will lead this week
a massive tracing campaign on nearly a thousand police officers. An operation organized after the screening of three positive cases in a police station in Lille, and two in Arras.
These new clusters are in addition to the 25 identified by the Ministry of Health, detailed in The Sunday Journal, last May 17.
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