PARIS (Reuters) – The number of people in intensive care with COVID-19 in France set a 2021 low on Friday, falling below the level reached following the end of France’s second lockdown in November.
The health ministry reported that the number of COVID-19 patients in ICU fell by 106 to 2,571 as France unwinds its third nationwide lockdown. The number of people in ICU reached a high of 6,001 on April 26.
Following France’s second nationwide lockdown in November, when the number of COVID-19 patients in ICU peaked at nearly 5,000, it took until Jan.y 7 for the ICU count to fall to 2,582, after which it started slowly rising again.
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Mark Heinrichj)
