The government refuses to consider new confinement as inevitable.
Asked Tuesday on FranceInfo, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who received his first dose of vaccine on Monday, reiterated that the level of the epidemic is currently "stable and high".
But the reconfinement is, according to him, not justified "at this stage".
What do the latest figures say about the epidemic?
On Tuesday, health authorities recorded some 439 deaths linked to the coronavirus, against 460 recorded on Monday and 404 just a week ago.
3332 patients in intensive care
At the hospital, 27,634 patients remain treated for a Covid infection in French establishments.
They were 27,995 Monday and 28,029 seven days ago.
Of this total, 3332 patients developed a serious form of the disease which requires treatment within the intensive care unit.
Or a slight drop compared to Monday.
Indeed, Public Health France had identified 3353 patients the day before and 3270 seven days ago.
On the contamination front, Public Health France counted 18,870 additional infections with the new coronavirus this Tuesday, against 4,317 on Monday (the figures are traditionally lower that day due to the closure of laboratories) and 23,337 last Tuesday.
The government is closely monitoring the spread of the variants in the country.
A figure to remember this Tuesday: in Ile-de-France, the share of the English variant would now be around 37.7%, according to analyzes carried out by the Biogroup laboratory from 7,000 PCR tests, the results of which have been unveiled by BFMTV.
Finally, since the start of the vaccination campaign in France on December 26, 2020, 1,986,617 first injections of vaccine and 366,733 second injections have been carried out.
The people currently vaccinated are part of the priority groups defined by the health authorities.