The French Health Ministry has reported that 242 people died of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours. This represents a decrease of over 100 from the day before that, when 369 people died.
So far, 22,856 people have died in France from coronavirus-related complications.
France has been in strict lockdown for over a month, but now, given the ongoing reduction in the mortality rate, the government is set to debate and then vote on a strategy to safely emerge from the lockdown and reopen the economy.