French health authorities reported 8,550 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, down from Friday's 8,975.
Friday's figure had set a new all-time high of daily additional infections since the disease started to spread in the country at the end of the winter.
The number of people in France who have died from COVID-19 increased by 12 to 30,698, and the cumulative number of cases now totals 317,706.
