Highlights: President Rouhani announces new Covid-19 restrictions in Iran

84 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the caseload in the northeastern state to 14,752, a senior health department official said on Saturday. Arunachal currently has 1,938 active cases, while 12,777 people have recovered from the disease.

Odisha Government has extended Covid-19 lockdown in containment zones till 30th November. The state has reported 290,116 cases till now which includes 273,838 recoveries, 14,905 active cases and 1,320 deaths, reports ANI.

Germany has confirmed 19,059 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, with the total count reaching 518,753, the Robert Koch Institute said on Saturday. The death toll has grown by 103 to 10,452 people within the same period of time, reports Reuters.

The Covid-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 4,317 on Saturday as 12 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. Seven new patients have travel history, while five infections were detected during contact tracing, he said, reports PTI.

Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure Covid-19 vaccines for the Pacific and Southeast Asia “as part of a shared recovery for our region from the pandemic.” The government said it would use a range of advance purchase agreements with manufacturers via the global COVAX plan, which aims to ensure virus vaccines are shared with all countries, reports AP.

India’s Covid-19 tally on Saturday crossed the 8.1 million-mark after 48,268 cases, 551 related fatalities were registered in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard. The active cases have further fallen down to 582,649 while over 7.43 million have recovered from the disease so far.

Clashes erupted in central Barcelona between riot police and dozens of people in a hundreds-strong crowd protesting the mandatory closure of bars, restaurants and other businesses as authorities struggle to rein in a sharp coronavirus resurgence. The Friday evening riots were the most violent that Spain has seen so far against pandemic-related restrictions, reports AP.

The national Ministry of Health said on late Friday said that Brazil's coronavirus tally climbed to 5,516,658 after 22,282 cases were logged in the last 24 hours. Brazil comes third in terms of coronavirus cases after the United States and India, reports ANI.

Austria's daily coronavirus infections jumped by more than a quarter to a new record on Friday, nearing the level at which the government says hospitals will be stretched beyond capacity, as it works on new restrictions to stem the surge, reports Reuters.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering imposing new national lockdown measures next week, amid concerns that hospitals across the country are overwhelmed by a resurgence in Covid-19 cases, The Times newspaper reported on Friday, reports Reuters.

Mexico's health ministry reported on Friday 6,000 additional cases of the novel coronavirus and 516 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 918,811 and the death toll to 91,289, reports Reuters.

The United States passed nine million reported coronavirus cases on Friday and broke its own record for daily new infections for the second day in a row, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, as Covid-19 surges days before the country chooses its next president, reports AFP.