France's COVID infections keep rising, hospitalizations up
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- 16 Mar 2022
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French health authorities reported 18,853 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, a figure showing a week-on-week increase for the tenth consecutive time on the day France lifted most of the restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic.
The seven-day moving average of new cases, which evens out reporting irregularities, reached 65,882, the highest since Feb. 24.
The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 rose by 8, to 20,925, a figure still 37% lower than the pandemic peak of 33,497 reached in November 2020. But it has gone up for the second day running, a first since early February. And the week-on-week decrease has been decelerating for nine days.
A change in trend in infections is usually visible two weeks later in hospitalizations figures. Read More...
