Highlights: Delhi records highest-ever spike of 7,745 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

The Public Health Agency in France has said that the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country stood at 1,748,705 cases with 40,000 fatalities. A record 86,852 cases have been reported since Friday. However the authorities are yet to confirm if the huge surge in cases are the numbers for the past 24 hours, reports news agency ANI.

Russia has reported 20,498 new infections on Sunday taking the country's Covid-19 tally to 1,774,334 cases. 286 new fatalities were also reported, rising the death toll to 30,537 in the country.

People are prohibited to drive outside between 10pm and 5am in Tbilisi and other major cities as a new set of restrictions announced by the Georgian government comes into effect. Cases have soared in cities like Kutaisi, Batumi, Rustavi, Zugdidi, Gori and Poti as announced by Vice Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili.

Emergency services are exempted and any violations would attract serious fines, the minister warned.

Georgia has reported a total of 54,852 Covid-19 cases and 441 fatalities with 2,859 cases on Saturday alone.

Israel's cabinet has decided to allow street stores to open as recoveries inch past new infections in the country. With 547 new coronavirus cases reported by the Israeli Ministry of Health on Saturday, total count reached 318,949 cases. 20 new fatalities were also reported that took the death toll to 2,664.

Active cases in Israel stand at 8,812. 583 new recoveries have been recorded and the total recoveries rose to 307,473 patients, reports news agency ANI.

Health minister of Delhi Satyendar Jain has said that the third wave of Covid-19 is the worst so far in Delhi and that the cases will soon begin to fall. He also mentioned that the high number of cases are due to aggressive testing and contact-tracing.

Repeating his earlier comments, he asked people to avoid carelessness and consider face masks to be the medicine for Covid-19 until an original vaccine is available.

Telengana State Health Department has said that 1440 new Covid-19 infections and five new deaths have been recorded, taking the total tally to 250,331 total cases and 1,377 deaths.

Total recoveries rose to 229,064 with 1481 new recoveries reported in the past 24 hours. Of all the active cases in Telengana, nearly 17,135 people are in home quarantine or institutional isolation.

The state has tested 4,618,470 samples currently of which 42,673 were tested on Saturday alone, reports news agency ANI.

A health department official from Jharkhand has said that the state has recorded 340 new infections, taking the total tally in the state to 104,239 cases. Two new fatalities have increased the state's death toll to 897, as reported by news agency PTI.

Data released by Robert Koch Institute in Germany has confirmed that the country has recorded 16,017 cases on Sunday, taking the total toll to 658,505 cases.

Also, 63 new fatalities were reported and the total deaths now stand at 11,289 as reported by news agency Reuters.

After reporting zero new coronavirus infections for nine consecutive days, restrictions will be eased in the Victoria state in Australia as announced by its Premier Daniel Andrews.

Victoria, Australia's second most populous state was also the country's epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has tweeted that India has tested 1,194,487 samples for the coronavirus infection on November 7, across the country.

With Saturday's numbers, the total number of samples tested in India stands at 117,736,791.

For the fourth straight day, daily Covid-19 infections in the US are peaking dangerously with at least 130,138 new cases reported on Saturday.

According to news agency Reuters, 17 states have reported highest one day spike and 14 states have reported highest daily hospitalization rate in the US.

Health ministry of Mexico has confirmed the addition of 6,810 new cases and 485 new fatalities on Saturday as the country's tally reached 961,938 total cases with 94,808 deaths.

Officials have also warned that the actual numbers could be significantly much more higher than what has been recorded, reports news agency Reuters.

Brazil's health ministry on Saturday said that the country recorded 22,380 new coronavirus infections and 254 deaths, taking the total tally to 5.65 million cases.

With the 254 fatalities, the country's death toll stands at 162,000, reports news agency Reuters.

President Elect Joe Biden has vowed to strengthen the United State's response to the Covid-19 with the US witnessing record daily spike in infections.

The Associated Press has quoted him saying that his first act as president of the USA would be to appoint scientific advisors and experts to lead the response to the pandemic.

Portugal will impose localised night-time curfews from Monday to contain the spread of the coronavirus as the number of cases reached a record high, Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced in the early hours of Sunday, reports news agency Reuters.