While the northern hemisphere is at a "critical moment" of the pandemic, in the words of the boss of the WHO on Friday, France has still recorded 42,032 new infections with SARS-CoV-2 in the past 24 hours.
A new The day before, this figure stood at 41,622. In total, more than a million people have already been infected in France by the Covid-19.
The country also deplores 184 deaths linked to Covid-19 in hospitals.
At least 34,508 people have succumbed to the disease caused by the new coronavirus since the start of the epidemic in the country, including 23,482 in hospital.
2,091 new admissions
The number of new admissions to intensive care or intensive care continues.
This indicator is particularly observed by the authorities, who fear an influx of patients who would clog emergency and intensive care departments.
Some 299 patients have been cared for in these specialized services over the past 24 hours, against 262 Thursday and 284 Wednesday.
In all, 2,432 patients are hospitalized in intensive care or intensive care this Friday.
They are 14,985 to be treated in hospital for a SARS-CoV-2 infection (or 1,823 more since Thursday).
2,091 patients have been admitted since Thursday.
A positivity rate of 15.1%
Among other indicators, Public Health France notes that the test positivity rate (proportion of positive people on all tests carried out) continues to increase and now stands at 15.1%.
On Thursday it stood at 14.3%.
Finally, 2,073 new clusters (outbreaks of infection grouping together "at least three confirmed or probable cases, in a period of seven days", according to the definition given by Public Health France) are under investigation, including 184 new ones.