France fatalities because of coronavirus just risen to 14,000, but the number of patients receiving treatment in intensive care rooms continued to decrease for the third consecutive day, injecting hope that peak has already been passed.
Ministry of Health data showed that the number of people being treated in intensive care units decreased to 6,683 from 7004 the day before.
The total number of deaths increased by 635 cases or five percent to 13,832 cases, with the deaths of 8,943 cases in hospitals and 4,889 cases in the homes of the elderly, but this is less than on Friday when the total number of deaths increased by 987 cases with the increase in deaths in the homes of the elderly.
"We are facing a huge and deadly epidemic that has reached an unprecedented level," Jerome Salomon, director of the Ministry of Health, said in his daily meeting with reporters.
He added that the hospitals are still receiving new cases and the French people should remain alert. “Now is not the time to end confinement,” Salomon said. “The pressure on hospitals remains very high.”
The ministry stated that the number of confirmed cases in France rose 3114 cases to 93,790 cases, an increase of 3.4 percent, which is slower than the five percent recorded during the previous four days.
France started including partial data from nursing homes this month, after underreporting the severity of the outbreak in the prior weeks, making for volatile reporting over the past 10 days.
The latest figures indicated that the general isolation measures applied in various parts of the country could already limit the spread of the disease.
French President Emmanuel Macron will address the nation on Monday about extending confinement measures that started more than three weeks ago.
Earlier, the French government’s health adviser warned on Wednesday that about 17 million people in France may be infected with the novel coronavirus due to age or chronic diseases.
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe warned previously of the danger of a “very high tide” of the virus “sweeping France,” noting that “the situation will be difficult in the coming days.”
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