In all, 52,919 new positive cases for the Omicron variant have been recorded in the past 24 hours, compared to 59,760 cases the day before.
The seven-day average, which is more statistically significant, fell to 61,628 daily contaminations against 84,516 a week earlier.
It exceeded 130,000 in early April.
The number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 is also down to 23,579 against 24,130 the day before, according to data from Public Health France.
They were 24,883 a week ago.
Within the hospital, critical care is also affected by this drop: there were 1,591 Covid patients on Friday, against 1,629 Thursday, and 1,645 seven days ago.
The epidemic has still caused the death of 158 people in 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths in France to 145,869 in more than two years.
Coronavirus: the situation in France Simon MALFATTO AFP
Vaccination has changed little: 54.3 million people have received at least one injection (i.e. 80.6% of the total population) and 53.4 million now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 79.2% of the total population ), according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
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