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After a three-week break, kindergartens and primary schools in France resumed operations on Monday.
President Emmanuel Macron said while visiting a primary school in Melun near Paris that the corona restrictions would be gradually reduced.
Domestic travel ban will be lifted next week.
At almost 6,000, the number of patients in intensive care units is the highest since last spring.
Authorities report more than 30,000 confirmed viral infections per day.
The number had been 40,000 this month.
The authorities see the decline as an encouraging sign.
From mid-May France will gradually allow shops that do not sell everyday goods to be opened again.
Some cultural institutions should also be allowed to let in visitors again, cafes and restaurants should be allowed to open their terraces.
The curfew, which applies from 19 to 6, is in effect for the time being, but Macron has given the prospect of postponing the start a little later into the evening.
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The president said he expects the situation to improve in May, when a larger proportion of the population is vaccinated and the number of new infections every day should decrease due to the partial lockdown. So far, around 26 percent of adults have received at least one dose of vaccine.