In the past 24 hours, 239 people with Covid-19 have died in hospital, according to Public Health France.
88,274 patients have died since the start of the epidemic, including 63,100 in a hospital.
Since the assessment established Thursday, 1,397 patients with Covid-19 have been admitted to hospital.
24,765 people were hospitalized, including 3,680 in intensive care.
Thursday, these services for patients strongly affected by the virus accommodated "only" 3,633 people.
Since then, 324 patients have been admitted there.
The number of patients in intensive care seemed to stabilize after several days of increase.
The next few days will confirm or not this increase in seriously affected patients.
This figure remains far from the peak of the 2nd wave in autumn (4,900) and above all, from the 1st wave in spring 2020 (7,000).
According to government figures, 23,507 new contaminations were recorded this Friday against 25,279 Thursday.
The institute recorded 20,064 Tuesday, and 31,519 Wednesday, February 24.
However, it is difficult to interpret these figures.
As of March 4, 1,839,826 people had received two doses mainly of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine.
3,392,269 people a dose.
On Thursday, 141,051 people had an injection.
Members of the government have been instructed to go into the field this weekend to give effect to the executive's promise to speed up the vaccination campaign.