Paris (AFP)

New assessments, new measures, highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

- More than 534,000 dead

The United States is the most affected country in terms of both death and case numbers, with 129,947 deaths for 2,888,729 cases.

After the United States, the most affected countries in terms of death are Brazil (64,867 dead), the United Kingdom (44,220 dead), Italy (34,861 dead) and Mexico which exceeds France with 30,639 dead.

- India, 3rd country in number of cases

India announces that it has identified a total of 697,413 cases of infection since the start of the pandemic, including 24,000 new cases in the last 24 hours.

The country becomes the third most affected nation in the world, behind the United States and Brazil. However, there are only 19,693 deaths.

The peak of the epidemic should not be reached for several weeks. The spread of the virus is particularly virulent in large cities (Bombay, Delhi and Chennai).

- Full hospitals in Arizona

In the United States, which has recorded record infections for more than a week, nearly 40,000 new cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours.

In Arizona, almost 90% of the beds in intensive care are occupied.

The beaches of Los Angeles were again closed and Miami put under curfew.

- New local restrictions

Australia will isolate the State of Victoria from the rest of the country after an outbreak of infections in the city of Melbourne, especially in several densely populated buildings.

Two months after its deconfinement, Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, is again placed in confinement.

The Kosovo government has reintroduced a curfew in Pristina and three other cities.

After Catalonia, 70,000 people have been subjected to isolation measures in Galicia since Sunday.

- Reopening of the Louvre

The largest and most visited museum in the world reopened Monday morning to applause. A reservation system with slots of five hundred people visiting every half hour has been set up.

Closed for three and a half months, the museum has lost more than 40 million euros in revenue.

- Virtual fashion

Paris fashion week opened this Monday for the first time in its history without a parade.

Each house will unveil its collection with a video broadcast during its time slot.

- Chinese academic arrested

A prominent Chinese professor, the author of several critical texts against President Xi Jinping and his alleged role in the epidemic, was arrested on Monday.

Xu Zhangrun had published in early 2020 in Hong Kong texts criticizing a grabbing of power by Xi Jinping.

In February, he denounced the culture of staging and censorship encouraged by the president, which he believed contributed to the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

- Tens of thousands of mink slaughtered

Tens of thousands of mink, reared for their fur, have been slaughtered in the Netherlands since June after the discovery of Covid-19 cases in these small mammals.

Two farm workers "most likely" contracted the mink virus, Dutch authorities said in May.

These two cases could be the "first known cases of transmission of the new coronavirus from animal to man, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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