(Updates with Saturday data)
PARIS, March 20 (Reuters) – The number of people in intensive care units with COVID-19 in French hospitals has risen by 66 to 4,353, a new high in 2021, the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday.
The number of new positive cases continued to increase steadily, by 35,327 to 4.25 million, after an increase of 35,088 on Wednesday.
The cumulative death toll from the virus rose from 185 to 92,167 compared to a rise of 285 on Thursday.
In a separate statement, the ministry said 6.14 million people had received a first COVID-19 vaccine shot by Saturday, making up 9.2% of the total population and 11.7% of the adult population.
Nearly a third of French people were detained for a month on Saturday because the government wanted to limit the spread of the virus in the Paris region and parts of northern France. (Edited by Sybille de La Hamaide and Jean-Michel Belot; Edited by Mark Potter and Richard Chang)
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