This is the first assessment of this period of reconfinement which began this Friday at midnight, after an explosion of contaminations in recent days.
According to its report on Friday, Public Health France announces that 49,215 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours.
256 new deaths have also been recorded by the agency in the past 24 hours.
A total of 36,565 people died from Covid-19, including 24,914 in hospital.
A 20% positivity rate
The positivity rate of tests carried out in France reached 20%, against 19.4% Thursday.
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According to the government's daily report released this Friday, there are 22,153 hospitalized patients with the virus, including 2,563 new entries in 24 hours.
In intensive care, they are currently 3,368 patients, including 422 admitted since Thursday.
At the height of the crisis last April, 7,000 were in intensive care.
Thursday, the director of the branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) drew a very pessimistic assessment of the evolution of the pandemic on the Old Continent, estimating that the level of transmission of the coronavirus is now "alarming" .