{"id":119331,"date":"2021-04-19T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119331"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T04:07:15","slug":"covid-19-number-of-patients-in-french-intensive-care-edges-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119331","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Number of patients in French intensive care edges up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media2.malaymail.com\/uploads\/articles\/2021\/2021-04\/0404_paris_hospitals_covid_reuters.JPG\" alt=\"A member of the medical staff treats a patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Sotiria hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, in Athens, Greece March 18, 2021. \u2014 Reuters pic\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units in France edged up on Sunday, the health ministry said, amid a nationwide lockdown to try to stem a third wave of infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health ministry data showed that 5,893 people were in intensive care units with COVID-19, 16 more than on Saturday. The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital rose by 460 to 30,789, ending a streak of five consecutive daily falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A government spokesman has said there are signs that the pressure on the medical system is easing slightly, but that the situation in hospitals remains serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France is hoping an acceleration of its vaccination campaign, combined with the month-long nationwide lockdown in place since last weekend, will help it regain control over the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health ministry registered 140 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals in the space of 24 hours. France&#8217;s cumulative COVID-19 death toll breached the 100,000 mark on Thursday, the eighth-highest in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 29,344 new confirmed coronavirus cases, health ministry data showed. About 12.5 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units in France edged up on Sunday, the health ministry said, amid a nationwide lockdown to try to stem a third wave of infections. Health ministry data showed that 5,893 people were in intensive care units with COVID-19, 16 more than on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}