Since Wednesday, the French hang out longer on the terrace, are more numerous in the cinema, the theater, find the sports halls.
If phase 3 of the relief of health measures may arouse fear of a relaunch of the epidemic, for the moment the indicators are green everywhere.
The incidence rate (number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) is at its lowest since August 27: with an incidence rate of 56.8, France finds data similar to those observed last summer.
The positivity rate, according to government figures, drops below 2%.
Symbolically, France also passes under the bar of 13,000 hospitalizations: there are 12,712 this Friday, against 13,090 Thursday.
In the last 24 hours, however, we note that 313 people have been hospitalized, compared to 297 the day before.
66 new critical care admissions
Health authorities have identified this Friday 2,163 patients suffering from a severe form of the disease requiring care in critical care services.
They were 2245 Thursday and 2571 seven days ago.
The number of new people admitted to critical care in the past 24 hours has also fallen, from 74 Thursday to 66 today.
However, the epidemic continues to take lives in France, even if the peak was crossed several weeks ago now.
In the last 24 hours, 69 new deaths have been recorded in France, 68 Thursday.
Since the start of the epidemic, 110,339 deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in France.
More than 15 million people fully vaccinated
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 29,831,488 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 44.5% of the total population and 56.8% of the adult population) and 13,722,706 people have received two injections (i.e. 20.5% of the total population and 26.1% of the adult population).
A total of 15,405,347 people have a complete vaccination schedule.
In the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health has listed 740,225 injections, including 407,027 complete vaccination schedules.