The number of people who died from coronavirus infection in France has risen by 218 to 24,594, while hospitalisations for the disease and people in ICU units continue to decline, France's public health chief said.
Jerome Salomon said the death toll had increased 0.9 per cent compared with Thursday, a lower rate of increase than over the previous 24 hours.
The number of people in hospital with the Covid-19 infection fell further to 25,887 from 26,283 on Thursday, and the number of people in intensive care fell to 3,878 from 4,019. Both numbers have been on a downward trend for more than two weeks.
