France over the last 24 hours (hospitals statistics only)
Cases : 106.206 (+2.633)
Deaths : 10.643 (+514)
Hospitalized : 31.779 (-513)
Persons in ICU : 6.457 (-273)
Recovered in hospitals : 31.000 (+2.195)
@UKBengali Some "positive" news. The number of hospitalized people has decreased for the first time,while the number of persons in ICU keeps decreasing -273 compared to yesterday. The number of new cases has decreased compared to yesterday while the number of people who recovered from it in hospitals is accelerating.
Sadly however,if we count deaths at nursing homes 1.438 (514+924) people died of the coronavirus over the last 24 hours,bringing the total to 17.167 who lost their lives du to coronavirus.
A massive tragedy but we need to take any "positive" we can out of this.
Just saw the daily Government Press Conference in the UK and the two medical experts are of the opinion that the UK is either at the peak or very close to it.
New cases seem to have stabilised over the last 2 weeks and the number of people needing hospital treatment for Covid-19 is slowly starting to come down.
All talk is now of what happens next - almost certainly the "lockdown" will be extended by another 3 weeks when it is announced tomorrow officially, but if we hopefully see substantial falls in the number of new cases and then deaths over the next few weeks, the government would probably relax some of the restrictions that have been imposed in 3 weeks in my opinion.
Economy is being absolutely trashed and 9 million workers( 3 times government estimates) are having their wages subsidised to the tune of 80% by the government.
It is a very difficult one on how to start lifting at least some of the restrictions but everyone is so scared that people may just not want to either send their children to school or go back to work - public and companies are following the restrictions even more than the government ever hoped for!
PS - France looking like it has more people dying in nursing home/community compared to the hospitals whereas in UK it seems to be 2:1 split of hospital/(nursing home/community) deaths.
PSS - Unfortunately both France and UK look like they may both have the same horrendous death toll in the end, as they are both nearly equal right now and seem to be very close to each other in the epidemic cycle.
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