France is still on borrowed time from the Covid-19 epidemic.
The number of contaminations continues to increase on Friday: there have been 24,116 new positive cases in the past 24 hours, against 22,501 the day before and 20,701 last week.
These are 328 deaths that have been recorded in the last 24 hours in hospital, against 320 exactly a week ago.
The Covid-19 has also caused more than 59,458 deaths in France since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest data from Public Health France.
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At the hospital, precisely, 25,506 patients are currently treated as a result of an infection, against 25,762 Thursday.
Of this total, 3,380 serious cases are in intensive care, against 3,384 Thursday and 3,298 last Friday.
Vaccination continues in France and this Friday, more than a million people have now received their two doses.
2,535,436 first injections of vaccine (ie 3.8% of the total population and 4.8% of the adult population) were carried out.