Sad record. The threshold of 160,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 has been crossed in France, once morest the backdrop of the ninth wave of the epidemic, according to figures published Tuesday, December 12 by Public Health France. In detail, a total of 160,008 people died, including 130,617 in hospital. The bar of 150,000 dead had been crossed on July 8. “The epidemic has not disappeared, the virus still kills and strikes once more”, launched Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, at the end of November, at the National Assembly. In 2022 alone, which is coming to an end, France has nearly 40,000 deaths from Covid. The epidemic, which had experienced a lull following a post-return wave, started once more for more than three weeks. It is carried by Omicron’s BQ.1.1 sub-variant, which is gradually replacing BA.5. Almost three years following the start of the pandemic, this new wave is still increasing contamination, but at a slower pace in recent days. The horizon of the epidemic peak is still uncertain. Tuesday, December 12, there were 23,217 hospitalized patients, including 2,104 new admissions. The anti-Covid booster vaccination remains behind in France – like that once morest the flu –, despite a recent rebound. Only “2.8 million people have been vaccinated once morest Covid-19 since the beginning of October, this is much less than our European neighbors”, thus recently underlined the Minister of Health François Braun, referring specifically to the ongoing recall campaign. .
